When women say to boys, “We don’t need you to do those physically strenuous things for us anymore,” besides its being quite false, it cuts their hearts right out. It is as if to say, “You are useless.” Boys need to be needed more than they need to be loved, or they need to be loved by being needed. It is indispensable to them that they should be dispensable, that is, needed to be spent up, for the women they love and the land they would protect, and, in the end, the faith they would affirm.
