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Making Boys More Like Girls
posted by Adam on Thursday January 04, @09:37PM
from the boys/young-men dept.
Boys/Young Men There's some surprising info from the Massachusetts News about William Pollack, who "joined the feminists at Wellesley College and Harvard's Graduate School of Education in their attempt to alter the nature of men by starting with boys in public schools across the country." Have a read of it right here. And there are some excerpts from his book, Real Boys. Of course, by "changing men," he means to make them more like women. Also, they included some soundbites from The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers to balance Pollack's claims, which was unexpected but a very fair move.

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Funny that Pollack's name came up again (Score:1)
by BusterB on Monday January 08, @01:11AM EST (#1)
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I wrote a short reaction to another article that mentioned Pollack's work. Needless to say I wasn't impressed with his ideas.

It continues to amaze me that most everyone: educators, psychologists, and parents, continue to swallow this idea that the only way to become happy and socially adjusted in today's world is to learn to express your feelings.

Why?

I have never seen any evidence that this is good for everyone let alone that it is the only path for everyone. Yet, most everyone I know simply accepts it as The Truth. Who, I want to know, proved this? Who determined it and how? I suspect that I know.

The funny thing is that this is exactly how women relate to the world, through their feelings. This is exactly what women talk about whenever they get together. And if you listen to women, which I have perhaps too much, you discover that they think that men's problem is that men relate to the world "all wrong" (i.e. not in the same way as women) and that men need to learn to express their feelings.

Now, isn't it just a little bit odd that psychiatry has taken women's way of coping with the world and adopted it, with little alteration, as The Answer For Everyone? Isn't it odd that most articles by psychologists admonish men to be more like women, but never admonish women to be more like men? Oh, there's one exception: Dr. Laura, and she's a pariah within the profession.

This makes me wonder if men's ways of approaching the world have even been considered as valuable coping mechanisms. Men have many admirable qualities that I never see mentioned in psychological writings.

Perhaps our "helping" professions are just a little bit partisan?
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