What is this?

This blog was created as a final project for my Gender and Contemporary Issues class. My goal in this blog is to discuss the issues of boyhood, and the gender stereotyping that we put on them.

In his book Real Boys: The Truths Behind the Myths, William Pollack says, "There are three major myths about boys that persist in all kinds of situations and among all sorts of people, even among the most thoughtful and progressive families, schools and communities. They are so deeply embedded in the culture, that without realizing it, they oftern short-cuircuit aour ability to see and love the real boy before us - the true boy behind these old faschoned ideas."

Over the cours of this I hope to discuss these myths and other stereotyps, and find the reason we have these "old fashined ideas."