Yann Moix, boomers’ favorite new parenting expert, reacts

The controversial journalist has finally identified the worst calamity in the universe: the child king, this advocate of positive parenting and environmental laxity. Parents of 2023, rest assured: there is a solution to subjugating your little budding dictators. Master them!

“Today’s parents” is the term many reactionaries use to call modern Daronia. This name, at first glance factual, is actually a small booger thrown in the face of all this parents today, these weak, naive and incompetent people who spend their time scrolling on social networks instead of disciplining their children. I can’t completely contradict this last point, as that’s exactly why I find myself writing this post: This weekend, while hanging out on Instagram, I came across a post by Patriarchy who broadcast an excerpt of an interview with Yann Moix, broadcast on September 25 on the radio channel France Blue.

Evidently the journalist had taken advantage of his radio appearance to provide educational advice to French parents. Since at this very moment my parenting consisted of mopping up the miasma and turning down a coveted cookie for the hundredth time, I thought these tips would come in handy. Looking back, I realize that I had to harbor a childhood virus, to even imagine for a moment that Yann Moix could have a relevant opinion on the subject.

As you can imagine, this was not the case. The host limited himself to reciting the favorite clichés of a generation of privileged people ready to do anything to continue exercising their power over their numerous subordinates.

Yann Moix, the polemical writer

Yann Moix is ​​a writer, radio host, but also a columnist and polemicist. Before we go any further, I would like us all to take a second to focus on this term: polemicist. This literally means that one of Yann Moix’s professional activities is to dismantle, oklm, the ideas and initiatives of his colleagues.

In 2019, Yann Moix had already attracted the ire of politically correct extremists when he had the immense courage to reveal his taste for younger, racialized women. It took a lot of courage for Yann Moix to face these avant-garde views in a matriarchal totalitarian society and continue to express himself when everyone think well he only dreams of silencing him. If we think about it, his story is a bit like that of Jean Moulin, only that, unlike his fragile and resistant alter ego, Yann Moix resists the attacks of the feminazis.

August 14, 2023, at the microphone ofEurope 1, the hero this time was talking about a recent train journey, ruined by a hateful mouflet that would have put his parents and all the travelers with them through hell. This story allows the polemicist to condemn what he considers the worst calamity in the universe: the child king. Personally, when people talk to me about the worst calamities in the universe, I think of our climate actions, capitalism and the omnipotence of the privileged classes. Yann Moix believes that these are child tyrants. Clearly, our lives do not encounter the same daily challenges.

A chain of clichés and stereotypes

I didn’t know that a man with Yann Moix’s profile, childless, powerful, in his fifties, could meet many guys, but I was wrong. How he will regret it this time France Blueon September 25, in the show In the backthe children he meets today are “ abject, thunderous and tyrannical “. Numerous testimonies of “ professionals ” support.

Until then, these remarks taste like good old demagogic, falsely subversive soup. Even those that follow. The positive anti-parenting bingo grid is completed. According to our expert, this tyranny would be the consequence of a… read quickly, the rest will surprise you… “absence of parental dominance and authority “. He justifies this modern point of view by recalling the ruthless balance of power omnipresent in our ultra-hierarchical society. The smallest must learn from the cradle to submit to the dominants (whom he represents, although he does not specify).

However, if he quotes the universe when deploring the current plague, Yann Moix’s world is tiny. It is limited to hexagonal edges. Elsewhere, countries like Sweden or the Netherlands apply social models based on horizontality and collective cooperation. These models that avoid relationships of domination as much as possible in all strata of society work with both children and adults. It’s not me saying it, it’s the (many) numbers.

Boring children exist, but (non)dominance has nothing to do with it

Much to the delight of boomers (you’re welcome), these established clichés are difficult to simply dismantle. In fact, many children are considered “unbearable”. Sometimes the reasons for their behavior are medical or contextual. Sometimes their parents are really resigned, overwhelmed or indifferent.

It is also true that more and more parents want to abolish intra-family domination relationships. However, these two elements are not connected to each other, it is proven. Equality does not mean laxity and resignation. Domination and authority also cause chaos, with figures to back it up – BIS.

And to those who answer that authority does not mean authoritarianism, I will reply that seeing your child as an equal does not mean considering him or her our friend.