Boys get mixed messages, "to be manly but empathetic, cool but open, strong yet vulnerable." They are misunderstood if they act tough, and misunderstood if they act nice.
Isn't that a short description of the ideal man? If so, isn't that exactly what we should be encouraging boys to be?
a fine and enviable madness, this delusion that all questions have answers, and nothing is beyond the reach of a strong left arm.
