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[. . .]WARREN FARRELL’S WISDOM. Dr. Warren Farrell, friend and colleague, is a trusted lens through which crucial elements of manhood are brought into sharp focus. It’s not easy being green, but it’s even more complex being male. From Farrell’s recent article “Omaha, Columbine, and the Vietnamization of Masculinity,” this excerpt:
“Our sons are experiencing the Vietnamization of masculinity. In Vietnam, we condemned only our sons for what we drafted only our sons to do. Today our sons face a Catch-22: they see the football players being cheered even as we condemn their macho. The doctors and dotcommers are still considered most eligible for love, but often their focus on work and money does not make them lovable. The Vietnamization of our sons is rewarding them for playing the old role and condemning them for having the mentality the old roles breed.
“The Vietnamization of masculinity has produced mixed messages and confused sons. When we care as much about saving males as saving whales, we will also save ourselves. When we seek to find boys’ inner world, we will give a gift to our sons in the 21st Century that we gave to our daughters in the 20th Century.”
Dear Readers: Dr. Farrell is expanding the issue you and I have been probing. He widens and deepens this crucial topic. For interviews, he can be contacted via telephone at 415-259-6343 or via e-mail at warren@warrenfarrell.com. Warren Farrell’s books include “Why Men Are the Way They Are,” “Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say” and “Father and Child Reunion.”
All of his books are worth your time and musings. You have my word on it.[. . .]
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