The Boy Crisis and Social Control

For Michel

It's Men's Health Week. And Father's Day on the weekend.

I'm in the middle of reading Warren Farrell's The Boy Crisis.  I'm not going to summarize it in a paragraph or two. It's some 500 pages of fully researched, punchy, compassionate and wise advocacy. It has much of the direct impact of The Myth of Male Power that I and hundreds of thousands of men an…