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Posted on December 12, 2014 by SoSpression

If you spend all your intelligence and strategic energy conquering video games, you won’t have enough left over to conquer real life.

“PORN and VIDEO GAMES BOTH send blood to the nucleus accumbens, the brain’s reward center. It lights up and blood is actually directed AWAY from the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, where motivation and REAL-LIFE GOALS reside.”

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765552356/War-on-boys-Sex-media-and-violence.html
The war on boys: Sex, media and violence
By Lois M. Collins, Deseret News National Edition

Published: Sunday, Feb. 19 2012 11:00 p.m. MST

This is the second story in a two-part series. Read part one here.

SALT LAKE CITY — In the middle of a crowd of kids waiting for the bus in front of a westside middle school, one of the girls drops her book bag and two boys scramble to grab it, nearly bumping heads. She’s 14 going on 17, all makeup-enhanced eyes and curled hair and dazzling smile. The boys are more like 14 going on 12, gangly and haphazardly dressed — and eager to get her attention.

They are the prize in the war on boys.

Recently, dozens of experts shared research on what’s happening to boys in America: The’re doing worse in school, they have fewer male role models because of therise in fatherless homes and the lack of men in the classroom. They are more likely to get involved in crime or become depressed than girls. Research shows girls develop faster and are being sexualized sooner, while the maturity gap between the genders is growing. Boys have more substance abuse and mental health issues and a suicide rate that’s five times that of girls between ages 15 and 19. They are not as healthy, their employment prospects seem to be dwindling and their delinquency rates outpace girls’ three-fold. A self-formed commission of experts, academics and policymakers wants the president to create a White House Council on Boys and Men, similar to one that targets wellbeing of girls and women. It would identify areas where males struggle and offer solutions.

It’s not just a good idea, says advocate Warren Farrell, author of “Why Men Are the Way They Are” and a dozen other bestsellers on family and societal dynamics. Boys need it. In a year of heavy and often contentious politicking, it’s also not a Republican or a Democrat issue, he says. It’s about America’s children — and they belong to all of us.

The future is being shaped by what happens in this battle for boy wellbeing. Farrell is worried.

Girls and boys

In the battle of the sexes, adolescent boys are outgunned.

While boys are emotionally and sexually behind girls, girls are being taught by pop culture the power of their physical appeal. “They are following a script of how they are supposed to look, act, which ways will get them attention,” says Audrey D. Brashich, mother of two small boys and author of “All Made Up.” “Boys are watching, thinking this is what I should start to expect and want for myself….”

The images, often photoshopped, unrealistic and “toxic,” as Brashich describes them, can set girls up to be sexualized and victimized. They encourage boys to have shallow expectations, chase a false ideal and treat females disrespectfully or worse. But when both genders follow that all-pervasive script, “we get up in arms and are so surprised that a boy sexualizes a girl,” says body-image activist Brashich.

A fraternity at the University of Vermont recently made headlines when members compared notes on which celebrity they’d like to sexually assault. “On the one hand, that’s shocking and horrible. But there are so many rape jokes in our culture, how can we be surprised?” Brashich asks.

A documentary called The Bro Code, produced by the Media Education Foundation, details how violence and sexuality have co-mingled. From video games to TV and film and music, even when violence isn’t overt, there are overtones of disrespect to women, of aggression as a kind of macho goal.

“I don’t understand how boys can end up having a proper relationship with women if they have been raised that way,” says Brashich. “They have no concept of what a woman is.”

But they want her. Or think they are supposed to.

“Pop culture doesn’t allow boys to not want sex all the time,” says Karen Rayne, a consultant, teacher and author of “Unhushed.” “There are plenty of boys who don’t. … We demand that girls be able to say no. We are not giving boys a lesson in how to listen to themselves and say no, as well.”

Brashich agrees. “It is critical that we interact with teenage boys with the assumption that they want high-quality, mutually satisfying and emotionally supportive romantic relationships,” she says. “Teenage boys are much more likely to live up to our assumptions and expectations of them than to put their own personal expectations far higher than those we set. … We need to teach teenage boys how to engage respectfully by respecting them. Forget all the statistics about teenage boys when you meet an actual teenage boy. There will be one individual standing in front of you. Maybe he is average. Maybe he is not. Regardless, the only way to know is to get to know him.”

All lit up

Girls have always matured faster than boys. What was once a six-month difference in maturity around age 13 is now as much as two years’ difference, a gulf instead of a gap.

Some researchers think the “why” centers on industrial chemicals called phthalates, found in lots of products. They believe they leach into public water from plastics, mimicking estrogen and speeding female puberty while retarding male puberty.

“The data is scarily convincing,” says Farrell, who adds that tests in different rivers and lakes repeatedly find evidence of phthalates. Some male small-mouth bass now produce eggs instead of sperm.

Today, boys are one factor in a complicated equation. To the maturity gap add girls who may be becoming more sexualized and more sexually aggressive, as well as boys who are unsure of how to approach girls or who have been rejected — or who aren’t yet up to the chase. That boy may veer to pornography in lieu of dealing with real girls. It’s there, online, and never says “I don’t want you.”

“It’s available to boys your daughters are interested in. And he’s choosing between rejection by your daughter or free porn…,” says Farrell.

Porn and video games both send blood to the nucleus accumbens, the brain’s reward center. It lights up and blood is actually directed away from the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, where motivation and real-life goals reside.

As the complexity of video games has mushroomed, the games have become harder for boys to quit by adopting addictive characteristics akin to gambling, says Daniel Kindlon, co-author of “Raising Cain.” “Obviously, a lot of the shooting games are marketed to boys much more strongly (than to girls). I think that’s a big obstacle in front of boys — there’s this temptation that wasn’t there before that’s primarily directed at them. The way it’s set up, it’s a hard thing to stop doing because there are these kind of incremental rewards, where you’re getting a little better each time. That really sucks you in, kind of like a slot machine.”

Lots of research has been done on boys and video games, says Sarah M. Coyne, assistant professor of human development at Brigham Young University. With extremely violent games, one of the messages is to be violent and aggressive, she notes.

While “violent play” doesn’t portend violent outcomes, violent video games definitely desensitize, Kindlon says.

When boys become involved with video games or porn, Farrell notes, “soon they are addicted, then unmotivated to be either sexual or productive in real life. They are motivated to play football online, but not to play in real life. … We are standing on the brink of being a far less productive country and women do not fall in love with nonproductive men.”

The message of male dominance and aggression also pervades TV and movies, music, ads and other media. In popular action-adventure films, men are hyper-masculine. Coyne says studies document a moderate effect with video games, but aggressive behavior may increase and empathy decrease. It is “definitely not the case” that it’s just a game, with no harm. “Be smart as a parent and know what they’re playing, know when to talk to them about it.”

Terri and Scott David of Sandy, Utah, sat down with their boys, Teagan, 15, and Dallin, 12, and agreed on time limits for all electronics, not just games. It’s too easy, she says, to let media take over lives.

“We have purposely curtailed the use of video games in our home,” says David Bench of Mission Viejo, Calif., who has sons 21, 20 and 17. “In fact, certain video games we never even bought so we never had them in the house — Call of Duty and that kind of stuff, (because) I’d say video games are probably right up there as the No. 1 way for boys to be exposed to violence.”

“Desensitization is a real risk of playing very violent video games for long periods of time,” said Caroline Knorr, parenting editor of the nonprofit advocacy group Common Sense Media. “The more (violence) they see, the less it impacts them — it’s like they need more of it to get that same sort of visceral rush of adrenaline.”

Her organization takes seriously the American Academy of Pediatrics statements about media effects on kids. In 2009, they said that violence in TV, movies, games and music can directly cause real-life aggression. They found the connection between violence, on-screen and in games, and real-life aggression nearly as strong as the health association between smoking and lung cancer.

Mixed messages

Boys need not be violent and aggressive to prove masculinity, says Coyne. “A real man in our society can take care of family, be a good father, be compassionate and kind.” But boys get mixed messages. When they’re hurt, they’re told to stop crying, “don’t be a sissy.”

That starts young. A little boy who wants to play with dolls — all he’s really doing is practicing parenting — is told to stop, laments David Derezotes, a social work professor who co-teaches a men’s issue class at the University of Utah. And roles have changed. Couples used to marry to form families and be more stable financially but now the focus is intimacy, he says. Divorce is up. Life has changed in every aspect. Expectations of a “warrior” have changed. And “even though we want young men to be successful, we don’t agree on what success is. The men we most admire are football coaches, the shamans and leaders of the 21st century. Do we hear about men who are great dads, who are cooperative?” There are no news stories, he says, about folks who bypass a promotion to teach or to care for their kids.

Kindlon expresses naked disdain for the way males are portrayed in the media because he believes those archetypes can eventually take a crushing toll on boys and men. “The images of men on TV and in the movies are still pretty bad,” he says. “There’s stoicism — not asking for help when they need it — or feeling they have to do things alone. One of the biggest public health issues with men especially, is that they don’t ask for help when either they’re psychologically in need or even sometimes physically in need; they don’t go see their doctors enough. To have that reinforced as a piece of manliness by the media is unhealthy for men and boys.”

Knocking heads together

The question of when proper boy behavior crosses into violence is vexing. On the one hand, the child psychologist and co-author of “Raising Cain,” Michael Thompson, asserts that a moderate amount of rough and tumble play is precisely what nature intended for boys.

“The biggest misunderstanding of boys is a misunderstanding of their play,” he said. “Boys are hard-wired for wrestling…. Elementary school teachers especially are always looking at boy-play and seeing ‘violent play,’ so they’re constantly interfering with boys’ play. But nobody’s getting hurt. It’s that they’re shooting each other with their index finger or they’re playing hunt-and-chase games or rough and tumble games.”

It’s also clear, though, that excessive violence delivered through an artificial medium like video games or television can cause inordinate and inappropriate aggression.

Because boys police each other, Bob Dunn, director of the South Valley Boys and Girls Clubs, says they try to identify boys who are leaders and help those boys make the right choices. Other boys follow the example.

Much to do

It’s not an unmeetable challenge, Farrell says, and the commission’s research bears that out.

Simple changes like offering single-sex classes in certain subjects already makes a difference in hundreds of classrooms. A Rutgers study documented that boys and girls handle stress differently; they can be taught gender-tailored approaches. Prevention programs can reduce costs and incarcerations. Parenting programs can model ways to engage boys and use their unique capabilities and energies, teach what’s healthy or unhealthy at different developmental stages, help absent fathers reintegrate into children’s lives. Excluding boys from being gentle lest they appear “soft” can change. Youths can be channeled to opportunities for training in growing employment fields. Communications skills can be enhanced.

The Midvale Boys and Girls Club is teaching boys to focus better by encouraging them to use not-traditionally-male tools like yoga.

“Statistics can overwhelm our compassion,” says the commission report, but “violent teenagers were once baby boys and, at that point, were far more capable of accepting guidance and rejecting negative influence.”

In other words: change is possible.

Before girls got a helping hand, the commissioners say, girls rowed the family boat only on the right side, raising children, and the boys only on the left, raising money. Girls have broader options now.

“If our daughters try to exercise their newfound ability to row from the left, and our sons also row only from the left, the boat goes in circles.”

Watch: Bruce Lindsay Sunday edition looks at the War on Boys

Email: lois@desnews.com, jaskar@desnews.com

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WWW… (dot dot dot) Word…Work… Wife…

Posted on July 22, 2010 by SoSpression

WWW… (dot dot dot)
Word… Work… Wife…

Once a young man hits 12 years old, there is a simple process he should have his heart focused on – WWW…

But when I say “WWW…” I don’t mean www dot foolishviolentmusic or www dot pornographyandgirlfriends or www dot Grand theft aughttostopwastingyoursoulonvideogames or www dot violenceinthestreets.

We live in a culture where young boys are hardly cultivated at all. They are either abandoned by their father, thrown to the justice system, or their souls are left to rot with entertainment (sexual and violent video games, music, television).

Boys come up ignorant. Naturally lazy, their laziness is coddled with video games and entertainment.

Naturally horny, they are shown endless sexual images and told they need a girlfriend to fornicate with. Naturally ungodly, they are left alone to rot with whatever music and movies are popular at the time. Most have minimal guidance; they just follow their peers and their penis.

As a man, we have all been in this foolish state at one point or another. I know I was until God rescued my soul.

Consequences are horrible. Society is left with an entire generation of unproductive, violent, lawless, fornicating, irresponsible boys who make babies and break up families.

They also drive up crime, they drain the economy, tax the nation, tax the justice system, and sow bad seeds to continue the cycle and make it worse in the next generation. Not to mention, they boys suffer a hard life and end up in prison or hell unless something good happens.

In historical cultures, the few boys of this sort were simply executed. Most boys were fathered, mentored, discipled, or apprenticed to become productive and responsible men. Even today, there are a few good men who train their sons. There are also a few good churches that train Godly men.

I was blessed with a great father and good churches. So I know that through the grace of God, some boys can get out of the artificial Matrix called the “teenage years” still alive, godly, productive, and responsible. Despite this, the problem seems to have spiraled out of control.

But the wisdom of God is always in control! Foolishness is bound in (tied and teamed up with) the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him (Proverbs 22:15). In addition to the Rod of Correction, WWW… is a wisdom tool that is meant to be easy to remember and teach.

When a young boy turns into a 12 year old man… He should know that the next 6-21 years of his life should be TOTALLY and COMPLETELY dedicated to:

W – Find Gods Word
A young man that turns 12 should begin to study the scriptures day and night. He should thirst for knowledge and search to understand God and Gods recorded History of the Universe.

While doing this He will also become familiar with the gospel, and the righteousness of Jesus Christ that can cover His sins if He only believes.

He will also become intimate with the God who inspired the Word. As He prays in the evening, morning, and at noon, He will develop a close friendship with God.

A 12 year old man – after 4 to 8 years of prayer, thirst and continual repetition and teaching – should be familiar with the entire Scriptures, having read it backwards and forwards 4 to 8 times. He would also know God who authored it. His soul should be anchored and ready for the next building block of manhood:

W – Find Your Work

This involves connecting with God and receiving a vision through prayer and fasting. This also involves discovering your purpose and writing out concrete goals and plans to reach them.

This also entails constant practice at the things you are good at. Then you will produce an income of money from your Work. Are you good at art? Do you like science? Do you like to talk? Do you write well? Do you like sports? Do you have a business idea? Do you hear original music in your heart? Do you enjoy building things?

You don’t have much time to waste on video games or television. For each talent or desire God has given you, you should spend 2 hours a day practicing and creating with it. Do this six days a week, and rest one day. This is in addition to your normal basic education and homework.

Find your work! If a man dedicates his soul to finding his work soon after the age of 12 – His work will change the World! He is well on his way to not only becoming a productive citizen, but a WEALTHY citizen who can give freely to the poor… Not to mention take care of his:

W- Find Your Wife

Women are powerful, capable, and strong… But bearing and taking care of children is time, energy, and money consuming. Therefore, a husband is Gods preferred head of household for families with children.

As a young man who has found Gods Word, and found his work – God is most likely preparing you to find your wife. Your beautiful wife you can have sex with any time. Your helpful Wife that will assist you as you conquer your Work. Your best friend you can enjoy the God-given fun of life with!

Notice I did not say “girlfriend.” A “girlfriend” that is not soon to be a wife is just a distraction from Finding Gods Word and Finding Your Work.

Once you find those two… you will see absolutely no need for a girlfriend. You will be looking for a wife to enjoy life with, and to help you with your Work and vision.

Having knowledge of Gods Word, your Work, your vision, your gifts, and your personality will make it easy for you to find your Wife. You won’t need to test out 25 girlfriends. Especially if you have been in God’s Word day and night since 12 years old. You will know His voice and His plan.

So Stick With the Plan: WWW…

God is waiting for YOU!
The world is waiting for YOU!
Your beautiful powerful helpful wife is waiting for YOU!

If you are past the age of 12, don’t worry… you can get on the WWW plan at any age! And if you are already married, do NOT find a new wife! Find out new ways to love your wife.
Our society has created a teen culture that stupefies young adults for the purpose of making money off of them. Don’t join it. Be a productive, responsible, and fun loving REAL man on the WWW… plan!

Starting at Age 12 (at least):
1. Find Gods Word: 4 – 8 years should give you a good foundation… Then love it for the rest of your life!

2. Find Your Work: 6-16 years should give you a good start… Then love it for the rest of your life!

3. Find Your Wife: 6-21 years should give you enough time to prepare for her… Then love her for the rest of your life!
…(dot dot dot) means for the rest of your life!

Men in Scripture who did it WWW-style starting at age 12 or earlier:

Adam: Was created, spoke with God. Found work in the garden. Then God brought him his wife. (Genesis)

Joseph: Started out with dreams and his vision as a teen… Found his work in Egypt. Found His wife last. (Genesis)

Samuel: Started with Gods voice as a child, found his work in the temple. Found his wife later. (1 Samuel)

Jesus: In temple at 12 digging deep into the Word, found work as a carpenter, then built the Church. Died for His wife at 33. (Matthew)

Other Scriptures On:
1. Finding Gods Word – knowing the Bible backwards and forwards. Learning how to be filled with the Holy Spirit and hear Gods voice.

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 3:15 KJV

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. Proverbs 1:4 KJV

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. Psalms 119:9 KJV

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray , and cry aloud : and he shall hear my voice. Psalms 55:17 KJV

2. Finding Your Work – Knowing and developing your gifts and talents. Discovering your position in Gods Purpose. Receiving a vision that creates internal motivation and diligence.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest . Ecclesiastes 9:10 KJV
Six days shalt thou labour , and do all thy work. Exodus 20:9 KJV

Rejoice , O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Ecclesiastes 11:9 KJV

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. Proverbs 20:11 KJV
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour , working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth . Ephesians 4:28 KJV

3. Finding Your Wife – Committing your life to partnership to a helpmate who you can have fun and enjoy your life work with.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. Ecclesiastes 9:9 KJV

Let thy fountain be blessed : and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Proverbs 5:18 KJV

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24 KJV

– Read Killing Idols For REVIVAL to prepare to lead a Godly family – because its the Spirit of Elijah that turns the hears of fathers to Children, and children to fathers.

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