Our boys are listening and watching. When we send empowering messages to girls (as we should be), we must also speak to our boys. The question is, what do we them to hear and see?
Raising boys in the wake of #metoo
“Girls can do anything, right – but what about boys? Why do parents still get sideways looks when their boys wear a dress, or play with a doll? In the era of #MeToo this narrow definition of masculinity matter – and the roles we assign kids at birth can have devastating impacts, Cecile Meier discovers.”
Please read this powerful piece.
Today’s Masculinity Is Stifling
“As boys grow up, the process of becoming men encourages them to shed the sort of intimate connections and emotional intelligence that add meaning to life.
There are so few positive variations on what a “real man” can look like, that when the youngest generations show signs of reshaping masculinity, the only word that exists for them is nonconforming. The term highlights that nobody knows what to call these variations on maleness. Instead of understanding that children can resist or challenge traditional masculinity from within the bounds of boyhood, it’s assumed that they’re in a phase, that they need guidance, or that they don’t want to be boys.”
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