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  • Boys Will Be Boys … or Will They?

    Boys Will Be Boys … or Will They?15

    In January, my young friend Anna and I inventoried authors by gender on the “New Fiction” shelves of our public library. That count came to 123 novels and short story collections written by women, 64 authored by men. The disparity came as no thunderbolt to me, as I’d noticed for several years the number of

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  • Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men

    Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men2

    A basic premise of the apprenticeship model is that people best learn by example.   Thus, if you want to become a skilled piano player, you study for years under a virtuoso. If you want to be a good electrician, you work under a master electrician for a period of time. And if you want

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  • Boys in White Dresses with Blue Satin Sashes?

    Boys in White Dresses with Blue Satin Sashes?1

    Last week, Bloomberg Business reported a new fashion trend for men: womenswear. “In January, Gucci’s menswear runway collection was an eye-opener. … It was because the men on the runway looked … like women. In fact, some of them were women—an increasing trend in menswear shows. Models of both genders—waifish male models and boyish female models alike—were

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  • Boys in Skirts: Genius Protest or Irrational Tantrum?

    Boys in Skirts: Genius Protest or Irrational Tantrum?0

    Early this morning, BBC correspondent Simon Hall tweeted the following pictures of a handful of male students at Isca Academy in Exeter. Boys at Isca Academy in Exeter wear skirts to school in protest at not being allowed to wear shorts in hot weather. pic.twitter.com/XHrffnSQEN — Simon Hall (@SimonHallNews) June 22, 2017 According to The

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  • Boys Don’t Need Books That ‘Put Them in Touch with Their Feelings’

    Boys Don’t Need Books That ‘Put Them in Touch with Their Feelings’0

    If you listen to cultural authorities on the question of why boys aren’t readings books, you will quickly discover the problem: the politically correct experts themselves and the Children’s Literature/Industrial Complex with which they are allied. Boys, they proclaim, need books that put them in touch with their feelings. Robert Lipsyte, writing in The New York

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  • Boys are Growing Frustrated by Living in a Feminized Society… and That’s Showing Up in Their Friends

    Boys are Growing Frustrated by Living in a Feminized Society… and That’s Showing Up in Their Friends1

    I burst out laughing the other day while reading a friend’s Facebook status. He explained that he and his two grade school sons were watching Anne of Green Gables when they came to the part where Anne and Diana have a conversation while standing on a cliff overlooking the sea. The youngest son suddenly blurted

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