Girls and Women Should NOT Be the Gold Standard for Judging Boys and Men

Lisa Wade has published "American men's hidden crisis: They need more friends" at Salon Magazine. In effect, she uses girls and women as the gold standard for judging boys and men. Let us give girls and women credit where credit is due. However, with all due respect for girls and women, I want to argue that boys and men need to develop a distinctively masculine sense of identity -- instead of trying to be like girls and women.