Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Male Man. In Homestead, Fla., Postman Walter Stiles was given two weeks' notice for "conduct unbecoming a Government employee" after his picture appeared in a national nudist magazine...
Biologists believe that a child's sex is determined at conception by the kind of male sperm that enters the female egg. If the sperm carries a Y chromosome, the child will be male. If it carries an X chromosome, it will produce a girl. The female egg has little to do with the boy-or-girl result...
...microscopes miss. As the sperm dried, Shettles found that the heads of some looked round like doughnuts ; others appeared long and boat shaped. There were no intermediate types, although the size of the sperm varied a good deal from sample to sample. Shettles speculates that the roundheads carry the male-producing Y chromosome, while the longheads carry the female-producing X chromosome. In every specimen the roundheads outnumbered the longheads, which checks with the fact that about 105 boys are born to every 100 girls...
...other hand, learn that to be men they must do something about it. Mere waiting is not enough; to be a man, a boy must prove himself and go on proving himself. Even the process of reproduction casts women in a relatively passive role, while it is something the male must make happen or else face failure. "The man's sense of his own masculinity," writes Author Goldstein, "is throughout characterized by uncertainty, challenge, and the feeling that he must again and again prove himself a man." The result, as she sees it: men are more anxious than women...
...Grand Kabuki. For the first time in history, Japan's classical, all-male acting company is performing in the U.S., providing a rich-if necessarily academic-experience for American audiences...