aim that our sons themselves are the victims of these stifling traditional sex stereotypes. According to the boy advocates, the traditional male-sex roles that feminists regarded as empowering and entitling men are actually harming males by forcing them to deny their inner selves. And to add insult to injury, society simultaneously endorses traditional male roles while insisting that males reject those stereotypes and embrace the new androgynous look. We want today's boys to become "new men," sensitive and vulnerable New Age guys who respect women and shun macho attitudes about power, responsibility, and sex. We send our boys to schools that encourage, at least for them, the passive and obedient style of girls and punish the more rambunctious ways of boys. But, at the same time, we still want our sons to be cool dudes--the sort of "real men" portrayed in traditional stereotypes.
             Pollack, Gurian, and others also claim that by trying to t
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