Men Talk April/May 2002

Empathy for Young Males
- Waid Johnson

Imagine you have a job like many people who come into their office every morning about 9:00 a.m. Now imagine your co-worker comes into your office or cubical and says to you. ÒAfter work I am going to find you in the parking lot and kick your #%@!!!Ó How much work would you get done that day? This may seem like an absurd situation to many of you, but today, most of our boys have to live with this fear at some point in their school career. And to whom can they turn? If they talk to their parents they are tattling about being bullied. So as a society we socialize boys at a young age to "suck it up" and "take it like a man".

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