How Books About Boys Are Quietly Rewriting the Script on Masculinity

True Masculinity: The Second Adam

Note: This is the second article in a three-part series on masculinity. It is perhaps strange that a woman authored these articles, although there is certainly no dearth of men writing and speaking about femininity, so perhaps it is not so strange after all. Sometimes someone with an outside perspective can... The post True Masculinity: The Second Adam appeared first on Where Peter Is.

How books about boys are quietly rewriting the script on masculinity

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM If you want to counter toxic masculinity, don’t start with a think piece. Simply hand a boy a book. That’s the quiet but powerful idea rippling through this year’s Carnegie medals for children’s writing, where male friendship and nuanced portrayals of masculinity took center stage. In an era of growing concern over the manosphere’s influence and a sharp drop in boys’ reading habits, these stories are offering…