All the talk about gender in class today reminded me of a book by former LA Times columnist Norah Vincent called Self Made Man: One Woman’s Journey Into Manhood and Back. It’s about the 18 months she went undercover as a man named Ned in order to see the difference in how people treated her. It ended when she suffered a nervous breakdown.
\nWhile participating in a bowling league, she had to opportunity to observe the way the guys on her team would treat their sons. She weighed in on the matter during an NPR interview:
\nThere is a toughening process boys have to go through [where] emotional expression is beaten or laughed or teased out of them…The only emotion left to them is anger.<\/p>\n
I can’t say that’s been my personal experience, but I can see how she might come away with that view. I do think there is truth in the […]<\/p>\n
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