Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...episodes left. Five survivors - an old guy, a gay guy, a sexless frat-boy doctor, a truck driver and a real pill (with admittedly impeccable balance). All across the nation, CBS' ratings with the 18-34 male demographic are, uh, deflating as we speak. And they sagged further on Thursday morning's "Early Show," when Colleen told a smitten Bryant Gumbel she had turned Playboy down. (Obviously a woman of dignity and taste, with the possible exception of that fling with Greg...
...Against Boys, conservative ideologue Christina Hoff Sommers blames liberal women for the boy crisis. Movement feminists, she says, cornered the market on victimhood for girls--and thus victimized boys. Gender-equity programs in schools only benefit girls, while boys are seen as "protosexists" and potential harassers. Sommers claims that most of the women in boys' lives--their teachers and counselors (and presumably their mothers)--don't understand masculinity and are threatened by it. Boys, she says, suffer when they're taught by women who want them to be in touch with their feelings; boys express themselves best through play...
Curiously, neither new book asks much specifically of the fathers and other men who are so often absent in the daily lives of today's boys. Sommers blames women for the boy crisis while never asking dads to step up to the plate. And Pollack's boys in crisis would surely be helped by strong examples of true manliness...
...fact is, boys need both feelings and action, self-esteem and high standards. At home, boys should be given jobs to do--preferably alongside Dad. Hours spent playing video games isolate them. Parents should spend as much time listening to their sons as talking at them. If we devote ourselves to meeting our boys' emotional and intellectual needs, as we have done with those of our girls, in time the boys will develop dreams as expansive as those of their sisters, and "boy power" will take on a new meaning...
...billboard of polite derision, shy mischief (or searing wistfulness), usually in some part elegant. But every time you saw Alec Guinness he was a little different, as if you were watching a quietly joyous or angry or befuddled or quixotic little man who looked just like Alec Guinness. And boy, could this...