Imagine a man wearing a dress to a wedding reception and crying at the moment the couple are announced husband and wife. Is a man wearing a dress and crying a little too feminine in a situation like a wedding? The point is, should boys ever act and be like girls? Cooper Thompson, who wrote "A New Vision of Masculinity," proposes to change the masculinity in males by "[socializing] boys more like girls" (Leonard Eron …
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…from that and slowly the issues of today's society will fade away. Finding a way to help men and women to have equality should not be focused on having "boys [be] like girls" (70). Therefore, males should not have to give up their qualities or change them in anyway. Work Cited Thompson, Cooper. "A New Vision of Masculinity." Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric, and Handbook. 3rd ed. Susan Bachmann and Melinda Barth. New York: Longman, 2001. 65-72.