🧩 BND Motif Index · M591
Teach your sons
The cure for male violence is said to lie in how boys are raised. Instead of teaching daughters to protect themselves, teach sons not to harm.
📣 Exhortations🗂️ Sex and gender🗂️ Abuse and silence
- 2claims filed under it
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Do your part
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Blame the victim 🧩 Not all men 🧩 Patriarchy 🧩 Silent complicity
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 NY attorney General faces bar ethics complaint over Cornell 7 case 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-11
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-09 “Critics say Cornell let students accused of rape off with writing essays, and call it rape culture.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Male violence against women is a systemic issue that is learned, normalized, and perpetuated by men who fail to hold each other accountable, keeping women in a position of subordination and silence.” 🧶 people online
M591 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-15 · what this is · how the index works