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Book Review: “Of Boys and Men” (2022) by Richard V. Reeves

reevesI just finished reading Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (2022) by Richard Reeves. I was inspired by what I had learned when writing my Defining Men series on this blog. I thought I might gain some further insights.

I was wrong.

I don’t doubt that author Richard Reeves is sincere in everything he’s written and that he actually is deeply concerned about the future of boys and men in our world. I just think he’s looking at the topic through a rather narrow lens.

I know when you read a book that has an extensive bibliography, it’s hard to impossible to say that the author was biased or misinformed. On the other hand, it really depends on which sources you mine and how you interpret them.

Reeves did state that both Progressives and Conservatives have, to one degree or another, not fully understood the issues involved in how males have become lost and without identity and purpose:

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Defining Men, Part Five: Who Are Men of God?

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A Man praying holding a Holy Bible. DUNCAN ANDISON/ADOBE STOCK

So far in this series, I’ve been addressing how to define a man, his purpose (from part four) and the struggles of men from mostly a secular viewpoint. I’ve also been leaning heavily on feminism because, in spite of what fourth stage feminism and general progressivism says, it’s very hard to bring one group up without tearing another group down.

Certainly, there has been a great need in some areas to support women but as I’ve previously said, any effort to “dismantle the patriarchy” ends up dismantling men as individuals and a group as well. One example is changing the Boy Scouts of America from a boys/men only group aimed at building and nurturing the next generation of men to an equity for all poster child, including girls/women because anything “all male” is always deemed “non-inclusive,” “patriarchy,” and “misogynistic.”

In other words, many of the goals of feminism are resulting in creating the toxic masculinity they are trying to exterminate.

But what can be done to help men?

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