Conversations With Cinthia

We often hear about the need to help young women become more confident, more empowered, more interested in science careers, etc.  Does it ever seem that we hear less about the hugely disproportionate number of boys in special education or diagnosed with ADHD, or the possibility that the educational system may be designed much more for the typical brain and body development of girls than boys?  Today's guest verbalizes concern that boyhood today is being treated as "a social disease that needs to be eradicated" and asserts that this attitude is part of what creates the problems that are eventually labeled as "toxic masculinity," etc.  Mark Hancock started Trail Life USA to give boys a safe place to be boys with other boys and men, to test themselves, to learn to value women and value themselves.  Listen as he and Cinthia discuss the need to be careful not to criminalize masculinity itself, and to give boys what they need so they can become the kind of men society needs.