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, examines what’s troubling boys. Way is a psychology professor at New York University and director of the Ph.D. program in developmental psychology.is a book that will probably get criticized by conservatives, and indeed there are ideas here that deserve challenging. The book
To simplify the data and philosophy: boys not only have a “hard” side that likes sports, trucks, and toughness, but a “soft” side that appreciates the arts, tenderness, and introspection. In the past several decades, the separation between these two sides has grown wider, leaving boys lonely, anxious, and unsure of who or what they are. They are taught to conquer, make money, and not feel too much.
In fact, men and women used to more easily be their full selves.
Today, more people want to straightjacket boys and girls into narrow gender archetypes, to trap them in a “thin” story rather than a “thick” one that represents them in full. Conservative commentators declare that men like to race cars and chop wood and that women want to have babies and stay at home . Liberals counter that gender is a social construct — yes, Way defends this dumb argument in— and that there is no such thing as male or female.
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