Why Do We Tell Our Boys to Stop Crying?

All this homophobia, all this inherent sexism and masageny, starts when we're kids. And if you are taught that being feminine is weak, then what you're actually growing up with is a false sense of power ver girls and women. Most of it has to do with protection. Why? Because they knew growing up what happened to boys who cried. They were bullied and made fun of, and they were weak. A father who loves his child wants to protect his son from being bullied and pleased and beaten up and weak. All the things that we do to young boys as we do whatever we can to make them emotionless, insensitive, impenetrable robots. Is tha's

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