There has been a great response to my piece Banning Boyhood.  Most of the email respondents agreed with my basic thesis and found the prohibitions against certain childhood pastimes that I mention in the article to be preposterous.

As far as the disagreement went, however, there was a basic theme: Some
readers didn’t like the fact that I implicated leftists/liberals in
this insanity.  Their gripe was that this phenomenon is the work of
"dumb people," as one respondent put it, and cuts across party and
ideological lines.

Whenever I write a piece, I’m well aware of the fact that if I name the
villains I risk alienating those who may identify with them.  On the
other hand, the truth is the truth, and mincing words isn’t always the
correct strategy, either.  I suppose I’d have a broader readership if I
were more of a politician, but first and foremost it isn’t those on
terra firma who I want to please.

Now, all of those who registered said complaints were polite; however,
I must say that while your hearts are in the right place, you’re
wrong.  Like it or not, I can assure you that at least 98 percent of
those who subscribe to the political correctness in question are
leftists.  It’s amazing that one even needs to explain such things, but
does it elude you that political correctness is a product of the left?
Before you can be honest with others, you have to be so with yourself.

You see, I understand where you’re coming from.  Some of you bristle
when the left is implicated in nonsensical social engineering because
you consider yourselves to be liberals — usually wrongly.  You simply
have an affinity for the designation, perhaps because your family has a
history of being in the liberal camp.  But you would do well to
remember that ideology is not ethnicity, and the definitions of the
words "liberal" and "conservative" have changed markedly over time.
Today’s version isn’t your grand-daddy’s liberalism.

I wrote a piece just for people like you, by the way, titled Are You Really a Liberal?  Give it a read.  And, remember, a mind is only truly open when it’s open even to that which you abhor.