“The upshot, according to Sommers: our nation is inhabited by millions of boys and young men whose problems go unsolved in no small part because the institutions that might be expected to address them are gripped by the belief that girls are being given short shrift. Worse, the culture at large is now striving to thwart the very boyness of these boys and young men, to redirect their masculinity, in ways that are harmful not only to them but to the rest of us, girls very much included.”
