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...Ehrenreich accurately observed that many American men shy away from careers that demand evidence of academic performance. Where she fell short, however, was in her failure to address why that is so. Doesn't she think male underachievement is a problem? She seemed to enjoy the fact that in our feminized culture, when it comes to higher education, the average guy is truly left behind. Paul V. Phillipino Falmouth, Massachusetts...
...pygmies can still be found living just down the road from the original excavation site helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental geneticist at Pennsylvania State University and a PNAS paper co-author. "If you look throughout the area, there are plenty of populations where the average male is under a meter and a half and females are shorter," he says. "If the people there are short now, so were the people who lived there 20,000 years...
...longer could I prance around the hall in a bra and panties with all the confidence of an alpha male wolf who had marked his territory; two dozen people now shared the floor. No longer could I croon Mariah Carey at the top of my lungs in the shower at four o’clock in the morning; I might disturb other slumbering or studying Thayer residents. Early on, my proctor gently drew me aside and explained the dorm etiquette of using “indoor voices when we’re indoors”; he had gotten complaints from...
...here's something that surprised even Giordano: both boys and girls agreed that girls have the power in heterosexual relationships, including when it comes to sex. "She wanted to do it more than I did," said an 18-year-old male. "She said that I wasn't mature enough and, you know, all that stuff ... I was too young, I was scared, I didn't know what I was doing, I wasn't ready for it ... [But] she was my girlfriend, and that's what she wanted." The picture of young love that was developing was so different from society...
...seems as if popular culture is waking up to the reality of the emotionally responsive male. Willowy, sensitive actors like Tobey Maguire and Topher Grace are looming larger on marquees. For every Charlie Sheen, there's a Jon Cryer. The irony is that boys seem to be the last ones to get the news. "It's like a shared misunderstanding," Giordano says. "One of the boys said that he'd never talk to his friends this way, the way that he talked to the interviewer, because those boys don't have the feelings that...