On boys being boys...
Ross Mackenzie writes Rallying Boys to a 'Dangerous' Standard of Normalcy:
I haven't read anything from Mackenzie before, but I'm glad to have found him. Click here for Mackenzie's column archives at Townhall.com. Click the picture above to order the book.
... Feminists who would condition us all may argue that boys are doing no worse than before — it only seems that way because girls, liberated at last, are doing better; the real crisis facing boys, they say, is that they’re not enough like girls. Yet something is rendering boys enervated and effete; something is sapping their energy. Midge Decter notes a “shying away from their instinctive restlessness and competitiveness, and, with it, a fading of whatever happened to be the standards of gallantry.”Click here for the rest of the column.
Maybe it’s the feminist revolution. Maybe it’s divorce and single(-mother) families. Maybe it’s our Spockian mores of child-rearing. Maybe it’s an outgrowth of the relativism that no longer finds innate goodness in America — and so worth defending, and its enemies worth fighting — and likewise no longer recognizes, or values, the goodness inhering in boys.
I haven't read anything from Mackenzie before, but I'm glad to have found him. Click here for Mackenzie's column archives at Townhall.com. Click the picture above to order the book.