Reblog if you believe in #genderstraitjacketnomore
America has revised its ideas about girls and women. But now it's our turn! It's time for evaluating the traditional ideas about boys, men, and masculinity. Not "even in the most progressive schools and the most politically correct communities in every part of the country and in families of all types, the Boy Code continues to affect the behavior of all of us--the boys themselves, their parents, their teachers, and society as a whole. None of us is immune--it is so ingrained" (Pollack).
The #BoyCode "puts boys and men into a gender straitjacket that constrains not only them but everyone else, reducing us all as human beings, and eventually making us strangers to ourselves and to one another--or, at least, not as strongly connected to one another as we long to be" (Pollack).
