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There’s Something Absolutely Wrong With What We Do To Boys Before They Grow Into Men

“Be a man” is something we’ve all heard at one time or another, even a few of the women reading this right now. Being a “man” in that sense means something completely different to me (and maybe you, too) than what that phrase implies. I can’t even begin to describe the toll that the concept…

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