I’ve thought for a while that we don’t expect enough of boys and young men. And in other ways, we expect too much.

I’ve thought for a while that we don’t expect enough of boys and young men. And in other ways, we expect too much.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/09/about-the-boys-tim-winton-on-how-toxic-masculinity-is-shackling-men-to-misogyny?CMP=share_btn_fb

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  1. Donna Buckles Avatar

    “Misogyny, like racism, is one of the great engines of intergenerational trauma.”

    Truth

  2. Donna Buckles Avatar

    “Misogyny, like racism, is one of the great engines of intergenerational trauma.”

    Truth

  3. Donna Buckles Avatar

    I like this piece a lot. There were at least 3 other passages I considered quoting as well.

  4. Donna Buckles Avatar

    I like this piece a lot. There were at least 3 other passages I considered quoting as well.

  5. Dave Higgins Avatar

    There’s a deeper message of equality and progress just slipped into the conclusion: “…the first step is to notice them. To find them worthy of our interest. As subjects, not objects.”

  6. Dave Higgins Avatar

    There’s a deeper message of equality and progress just slipped into the conclusion: “…the first step is to notice them. To find them worthy of our interest. As subjects, not objects.”

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