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Calla Kessler, Women lift their hands in protest of the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh on the day of Christine Blasey Ford’s hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 27, 2018. Via The Washington Post.

[breakingtheboycode]

Boyhood adolescence has largely been ignored in pop culture and elsewhere. Yet it’s this period when the prevailing culture tightens its grip on boys, asking them to adhere to strict protocols of masculinity to secure their spot in the social rankings and to stay safe from the bullying and exclusion that can result if they step outside of the mold.

Judy Y. Chu, a human biology professor at Stanford University, says that as very young children, boys are socialized to mask their sweetness and emotional attachments. The less emotionally vulnerable they are, the higher they land in the boy hierarchy—where independence and toughness reign.

That socialization intensifies in middle school when boys seek to figure out what kind of young men they will be, and what the world will think of them.

Ellen McCarthy and Amy Joyce, Being a Boy: Ages 11 and 12

[breakingtheboycode]

Psychologists say all manner of boy codes are about to be thrown at these three: Be aggressive. Don’t show a girl you like her (too much). Pretend you don’t care about school. Never cry, especially in front of other guys.

Calla Kessler, Being a boy: Ages 11 and 12

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