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npolanchik 's review for:
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
by Jared Yates Sexton
What I love about this book compared to other toxic masculinity books is its profound impact by following one person and the generational effects of masculinity—ebbing between wanting to escape, but quickly falling into the comfort of the patriarchal system—rather than a book about research. However, when research is presented, it works. Yates Sexton provides fascinating statistics and anecdotes, dating all the way back to the Industrial Revolution, that allow this story to strike a nerve and become real for all readers—even the naysayers.
Most fascinating is the third part of the book where we see descriptions of how toxic masculinity led to Trumpism, why it wasn’t a surprise, and a glimmer of hope for the future.
Most fascinating is the third part of the book where we see descriptions of how toxic masculinity led to Trumpism, why it wasn’t a surprise, and a glimmer of hope for the future.