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...classrooms are crowded but quiet, far removed from the noise of the harvest outside. In one room under a dome, 800 young men, their beards thickening as they move in their final year into mature manhood, sit cross-legged rocking on their haunches as a professor takes them through an interpretation of a religious text. All students and teachers sit on straw mats on the floor. Classes begin as the sun rises after prayers before dawn, and end again with prayers after dusk. Infractions are punished by banishment from meals. Serious disciplinary lapses lead to expulsion. Television is banned. Women...
...giving away the male gender's dark secrets is to confirm provocatively what they already believe. (See also The Other Half's blowing the lid off why men don't look at maps.) But at best, these series show TV arriving at a more nuanced understanding of manhood. In the dreaded '70s "sensitive man" era, feminist guys tended to simply, implausibly, deny what made them different from women. The postfeminist backlash of the '90s gave us the chest-thumping likes of Comedy Central's The Man Show. Today's post-postfeminist TV man isn't perfect. But at least...
...Defense Fund. He has received a Heinz Foundation award, a Hero Award from the Robin Hood Foundation and a Parents Magazine Award for his work in child advocacy. He is the author of Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America and Reaching Up for Manhood...
Testing a new leader's manhood...
...neighbors, and its domestic political situation increases the danger of the latest Israeli action provoking further escalation. President Bashar Assad has not been tested since taking over the reins from his late father last year, and the reform-minded 38-year-old may feel pressure to prove his manhood to Damascus hard-liners and his regime's key power base, the Syrian military...