BeanieBarrow reviewed Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
Best book I read this year and it's only January
5 stars
One of the most empathetic books I have ever met. Very refreshing reading about being a man in a compassionate way.
"Boys have the sensitivity routinely mocked and shamed and beaten out of them, and the treatment leaves scars for life. Yet we women wonder why, as men, they do not respond to us with more feeling. Actually, we do more than that. We blame and disdain them for their heartlessness. And we aren’t the only ones. Men are at the center of their own conflict. They as much as anyone toughen each other in turn and often find no fault in it, since to do so would be to display an emotional facility that most were long ago denied or forbidden to express."