“Guyland is the locker room writ large: the world where young men both test and prove themselves as men and develop the defining attitudes and self-images they will carry into adulthood.”
More from the cover flap of Guyland. Apparently the author Kimmel interviewed a lot of people for this book. I remember reading an interview with former First Lady Laura Bush where the journalist asked what her most important goal to reform public policy was. Bush replied something simple like “boys.” The interviewer was taken aback by such a blunt answer.
She had a point. Both she and her husband had trouble reaching maturity, as I understand it. Both Laura and George W. Bush seem to have had drinking problems when young. In conversation, I heard a young liberal journalist mocking Laura Bush for being a librarian; I though it was unfair. “Librarians are only interested in the outsides of books,” I heard one of my grad school classmates say. So what.