Raising Cain

But her prescription was tear down all gender stereotypes, rejecting physical differences, psychological differences, social differences between boys and girls.

As Bell Hooks was providing the anti-patriarchy remedy in The Ivory Tower, popular books like Raising Cain and Lost Boys showed parents how to grow their sons away from the toxic patriarchy.

Little boys, we were told, had to be conditioned away from their physicality towards sensitivity.

What boys need first and foremost, authors Kindlin and Thompson said, is to be seen through a different lens than tradition prescribes.