Recently, I read an article titled ‘Common Decency’ by Susan Jacoby, in my textbook which was an article issued in the New York Times. The essay was over the common offence of rape or date rape. In her essay, the author writes about date rape, focusing primarily on messages being sent and …show more content…
She discussed her own experience with a man who actually didn’t take advantage of her own contradictory emotions. Making known to everybody who read her article, that genuine men do live in this world with a clear sense of their values. The universal phrase that mothers use in attempting to lessen the effect of any wrongdoing of “boys will be boys” does not bode well as they mature into young men. In my point of view “boys will be boys” is a complete fallacy, it doesn’t mean that men or women can do as they please just because they are in fact men or women. There has to be common ground between both genders when they vindicate their rights as people. This phrase should not be an advocate for teens or men who take things too far. I believe this phrase should only be accustomed to children. This idea of “boys will be boys”should end at a child reaching maturity in which he is forced by society to take responsibility for his own