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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
It was really perfect to read this book immediately after finishing Fight Club and to take time to look into the tenderness, the woundedness, and the strengths in masculinity (and fighting). To see someone, unlike in Fight Club, experience hardship, experience violence and to turn that into curiosity and the will to change for the better was so lovely.
I am so grateful for the perspectives of trans individuals who can approach gender and gender roles with interest, questioning and new dynamics. I learn so much from them. McBee’s book was no exception and I found myself tearing up SO much at his gentle and yearning approach to masculinity and boxing. It was very sweet to move through the process along with him and to see the evolution in him and in his own perspectives of men.
Just loved it! Gorgeous book!! So well written and so good for reflecting on men & masculinity.
I am so grateful for the perspectives of trans individuals who can approach gender and gender roles with interest, questioning and new dynamics. I learn so much from them. McBee’s book was no exception and I found myself tearing up SO much at his gentle and yearning approach to masculinity and boxing. It was very sweet to move through the process along with him and to see the evolution in him and in his own perspectives of men.
Just loved it! Gorgeous book!! So well written and so good for reflecting on men & masculinity.
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an interesting answer to the question "what is masculinity?" and the ideals that stereotypically surround it
challenging
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Definitely a masculinities study that I enjoyed, more accessible for the amount of boxing metaphors going on.
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While I enjoyed the experience or reading this memoir a lot and found some of the points made interesting, there were many places that read as a little dated and where I wished McBee would have pushed his analysis further. The pure hope this book ended with felt very refreshing, though it is also obviously misplaced in our current political climate. This is definitely worth reading but I'd be interested in seeing an edition with a more current foreword or afterword or something new from McBee all together.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
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