Taking cues from family and media, young boys teach their peers how to perform masculinity, to their detriment.
Noah Berlatsky interviews Judy Chu, author of When Boys Become Boys about her research into the lives of young boys, the struggle between their need for closeness, and the pressures to abandon close friendships. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/how-boys-teach-each-other-to-be-boys/372246/
“It’s the most important thing in the world to teach young men what a healthy relationship is… As a culture it’s time that we gave our young men permission to be complex, sensitive and happy human beings who transmit positivity and respect to others.”
— Michael Conroy.
Read the full article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/feb/20/teaching-boys-about-healthy-relationships-they-need-it-from-birth
