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There is No Such Thing As A Bad Boy “He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.” Nenia Campbell wrote in her book Armed and Dangerous. The idea of the allusive bad boy with a heart of gold has riveted girls and women for centuries. The entertainment business has played on this since there was one. From the writers in the earliest form, love stories were filled with men who appeared bad but only revealed to his glorious heart to his heroine.…

about boys, often which focus on the “trouble with teenage boys”. Unfortunately, this negative stereotype can have a detrimental impact on boys’ self-belief and esteem. We can believe in gender equality and, at the same time, celebrate and acknowledge the joyful differences. In 2012, Winifred Robinson, a BBC Radio presenter and journalist, shared her thoughts on the joys of teenage boys which, I think, are really pertinent today. A shared opinion is that boisterous, uninhibited, loyal boys are…

gender stereotypes. They emphasize that young men in our society should follow “boy code” and fit the media’s…

In a lifetime people will have many codes or rules that they will morph over time. They might honor them or they may abandon them as time goes by. Peter is a young boy who grows up in South Carolina during the time of segregation. His world gets turned upside down when he abandons his code of being a wealthy civilized boy who dislikes people with darker skin tone to immersing himself in the aboriginal culture, becoming what he knows as being “uncivilized”, and starting to be more hands on.…

Boy Based Commercials Rather than domesticity, commercials that feature boys contain violent images. For example, in the commercial for “Power Rangers Super Megaforce Double Battle Figures” there are images of ‘blasters’ and ‘swords’, with the Power Rangers fighting ‘evil’ (Bandai 2014). The voice in the commercial is male, and the intended audience for Power Ranger is clearly young boys. The voice says things like “fire your blaster and swing your sword,” as well as “you’re armed and ready!”…

No Boys Allowed In a scientific point of view nature causes gender differences in interests/behaviors. But in reality nurturing holds more credibility on gender differences. “Gender is a social construct” means gender is created through society and culture, and this is prescribed as appropriate behavior for a person based on their gender. The view above isn’t uncommon within teacher’s training in college and public schools. This view has a great potential to hurt boys because teachers aren’t…

while boys seem to be falling further behind. William Pollack created the term “Boy Code”. The Boy Code is a set of rules, assumptions, models and expectations that our society has used since the nineteenth century, for boys to adhere to. This includes the code of silence, hiding your deepest thoughts and feelings, showing vulnerability is a sign of weakness and you may be teased, and that it’s unacceptable for men and boys to display “feminine” qualities, fear, uncertainty, or loneliness. Boys…

Soldier Boys is a fiction book published in 2001 by Dean Hughes. This book shows the viewpoint of two boys, one German and one American. Dieter, the German boy, is only 10 years old and this book tells the story of how he ended up going from a little kid to a man fighting for his country. Spencer, the American boy, is only 15 years old and he is going to fight for America to impress the girl that he likes named LuAnn. This story takes place during WW2 before and during The Battle of the Bulge.…

dysfunctional one? During the novel Jim the Boy by Tony Earley, the reader follows a young boy, Jim, who lives in a less than traditional family with his widowed mother, Cissy, and her three older brothers, Zeno, Coran, and Al. Within the story, Jim’s uncles pressure Cissy to get remarried for the sole purposes of giving Jim a father and her refusal of results in her “depriving Jim of the masculine companionship necessary for the proper forming of young boys”, but Cissy argues that her brothers…

A War Against Boys? : Response A War Against Boys starts out with a teenage boy and his father suing the Boston school district for sex discrimination. Stating that schools routinely discriminate against males (Kimmel 65). The article goes on to state how boys have lower GPAs when compared to girls and are also 50 percent more likely to drop out of high school. Boys are, as well, less likely to go to college and succeed and be slapped with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder. Some say…