mature masculinity Archive

  • Patriarchs I Have Known and Loved

    My father grew up in a troubled home, poor as coal dust. A child of the depression and of divorce, he lined his broken-soled shoes with newsprint. As a child, he learned to hustle, earning nickels at the ballpark any night he could. There was […]

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  • Atticus Finch: Fatherhood Gold Standard

    For years, I’ve cited To Kill a Mockingbird as my favorite book whenever asked. But I’ve read a lot of books since I first read that book in ninth grade English class. So thanks to a book club I’m a part of, I re-read it […]

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  • Burying the Weapons

    When I became a mother I was certain my children would grow up enlightened. And for me enlightenment meant my children would not ascribe to any traditional gender stereotypes or roles. My girls would play sports and revile Barbie. My boys would wear bow ties […]

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  • Welcome to ‘Mature Masculinity Week’

    Grr! Hmph! (Flex!) It’s Father’s Day, and that means that the next seven days on D&S will be dedicated to that strange cultural elaboration on the XY chromosome: it’s ‘Mature Masculinity Week’! “‘Mature’ masculinity?” I hear you cry! “Isn’t masculinity, by definition, more mature than […]

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