How Not To Be a Boy

by Robert Webb

But anyway, I’m nowhere near that cool. I have to go with the flow. And the flow is: stop doing stuff you like when it becomes somehow inappropriate. It’s not so much Act Your Age as Act Your Gender.

The Trick is a stupefying waste of everyone’s time. It creates barriers, not just between men and women, but between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons. To oppose it has been the cause of feminists for many years. It’s a cause I share.