Bookworm on Mar 05 2008 | Filed under: Hollywood, Men, World War II
Almost exactly a year ago, I did a post I entitled Manly men, Girly men and Peter Pan. In it, I tried, ineffectively, I admit, to figure out America’s cultural trends regarding men. There’s the manly trend, exemplified by the Marines and much admired in certain romance novel genres; the Peter Pan trend, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2007 | Filed under: Marriage, Men, Women
Back in December 2004, I wrote a post over at my old blog site about how difficult life is in the 21st Century for June Cleaver. Since Blogger posts, after a certain period of time, lose all formatting, I’ll reprint it here, in an easy to read format:
I’ve been looking around at friends’ marriages, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 18 2007 | Filed under: Children, Men, Parenting
To toot my own horn, I am a very competent person. I’m not overwhelmingly good at any one thing, but I can do most things fairly well. My kids get to see this competence in action. I do a lot of my legal work from home, so they see me in professional mode. I also [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2007 | Filed under: Men
I’m seeing pieces of a puzzle, but I’m having a problem discerning a larger pattern (maybe there isn’t one). Here are the pieces, and I’d like it if you’d chime in with what I’m missing.
It starts with Marines. The first piece of the puzzle is that Marine show I blogged about a couple [...]
Bookworm on Aug 14 2006 | Filed under: Men
This is an interesting NPR story about efforts to identify and deal with violently aggressive boys before they go postal. A little tidbit buried in the story, and quickly passed over, is a denominator common to “most” (not just “many”) of these violent boys — they have no father in their lives. Fathers matter.
Sphere: Related [...]
Bookworm on Apr 25 2006 | Filed under: Men
To a hammer, everything is a nail. Currently, I'm hammering away at the idea of manly men. I did so yesterday in a post that alluded to early posts and articles I've written. Today, I'm doing it in connection with a New York Times article about Paul Greengrass's United 93. It turns [...]
Bookworm on Apr 24 2006 | Filed under: Men
As the mother of a very masculine little boy, I spend a lot of time thinking about (and some time blogging about) what makes for a good manly man. In the "what not to do" category, I've been reading Kate O'Beirne's Women Who Make the World Worse : and How Their Radical Feminist Assault [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2006 | Filed under: Culture, Men
I did something I rarely do: I made an impulse purchase of a just-released movie on DVD. I simply couldn't resist buying The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I then watched it again with the kids, and found it just as good as I remembered from viewing it [...]
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