The Brutality of Boyhood

By Washington Monthly 01/11/2021

“… For starters, we generally don’t hold boys’ bodies sacred in the same manner we do girls’; boys are apparently too tough to experience physical pain. We deny them access to the full range of human emotions, labeling certain feelings like sadness and fear as exclusively feminine. We don’t give boys the language to tell us when something bad happens to them…”

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