Why must women mock the men they love?

Article here. Excerpt:

'What is especially worrying about the trend is the effect it has on our children. It’s impossible to spend a night with your female friends, having a ‘laugh’ about your useless husband and then go home and treat him with respect.

More than once, I’ve seen mothers and children in cahoots, exchanging raised eyebrows over yet another ‘job’ that Daddy hasn’t done. In sharing tales about men’s incompetence, women are coming dangerously close to normalising a corrosive and lasting disrespect for fathers that can only have devastating consequences.

Research carried out by the University of Kent last year demonstrated that by the age of eight boys believed girls were better behaved and more successful than they were. Surely these negative opinions of their gender are down to boys growing up in a culture that routinely derides and ridicules masculinity.

As a teacher in secondary schools, I’ve noticed that by the age of 14 the idea that girls are more competent than boys is well established. And it is fair to say that in many mixed schools, more is expected of girls than of boys. Those boys who do work hard and apply themselves are criticised and sneered at, called ‘geeks’ and ‘nerds’.

Even boy scouts have to allow girls in now — the same doesn’t hold true for Brownies or Guides, of course. There doesn’t seem to be any space for boys to just be boys, to have fun, let rip, have adventures, go on missions and achieve amazing things.'