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93 reviews for:
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
Jared Yates Sexton
4.23 AVERAGE
93 reviews for:
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
Jared Yates Sexton
4.23 AVERAGE
I loved this book. I was emotionally moved reading about his relationship with his father. I was brought to tears at the end of chapter 12. I felt very connected to the author in part 3 as I myself am a geriatric millennial as well. I grew up in a very small town as well where the men were to be men and the women were supposed to be seen and not heard. I'm so grateful for this book & the author with everything he's doing.
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I liked the way he used his upbringing to explain the different themes but he kept going back and forth between different times of his younger self instead of a chronological story and that made it hard to keep a time line in my head and sometimes made it seem like he was contradicting his own story. Other than that is a really good book
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
informative
fast-paced
The discussion of toxic masculinity is valuable, as is the author's riveting, and at times horrific, life. I appreciated the candour of the memoirist. But it’s just that: a memoir. The claims of it being a “well-researched” account of toxic masculinity is a little suspect. There are a variety of sources (books, research papers, articles, etc.) touched on and cited but not discussed critically or at length. Personally, the prose style also itself did nothing for me and fell extremely flat.
Great thoughts on what it means to be oneself in a society that has historically been dominated by masculinity. Defining masculinity in a narrow way is harmful to everyone.
Jared shares his experiences with toxic masculinity on a personal level as well as political and social. None of this is new information to me, but still so important and I wish it was required reading.
reflective