My teenage brother makes constant “jokes” around the house about women cooking, multi-tasking, and other blatantly stereotypical, sexist topics. He isn’t a bad guy in any sense of the word, and I love him completely. But it is clearly seen as the norm for young men these days to engage in this everyday sexism, even at school age. When challenged, he doesn’t see the harm in it and tells me to “take a joke” – how can society move forwards when the young men of the future are growing up in a culture of underlying sexism? I don’t blame him yet, he is young and will learn… it is up to society to educate the next generation about the ramifications of such harmless “jokes”.
