Boys' Stuff: Boys talking about what mattersTeenage boys tell us what they think about growing up, friends, sex, sport, drugs - no holds barred. |
Contents
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BOYS THEIR BODIES | 25 |
TALKING RISKS | 41 |
FRIENDSHIPS RELATIONSHIP | 59 |
SPORTING AROUND | 89 |
SCHOOL | 105 |
FAMILIES | 133 |
BOYS BEHIND THE LABELS | 159 |
LIFE PLACE HEADSPACE | 191 |
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Boys' Stuff: Boys Talking about What Matters Wayne Martino,Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli No preview available - 2001 |
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Page 21 - All men are babies, when you come to the bottom of them. Why, I've handled some of the toughest customers as ever went down Tevershall pit. But let anything ail them so that you have to do for them, and they're babies, just big babies. Oh, there's not much difference in men!
Page 144 - The first time I'd ever seen my dad cry was when we went for a long drive around the block for five hours, just kept encircling the block, while I talked to him about being gay and he wanted me to change [... ] he was going to send me to Italy because he thought that somehow that would change me. He said, 'I'll send you to Italy, maybe you'll meet a nice girl.
Page 5 - What issues do boys have to face ... not looking like a fairy ... not being too dumb ... not being too smart ... every pressure available ... fitting in the right groups ... No matter how hard you try and how much effort you put in you always end up back at the bottom...
Page 7 - Yes, I know what to do, I can do it'. Sort of be the big mother bird and take other little birds underneath your wing and show them what to do, show them how to fly, stuff like that.
Page 67 - Look, I'm really sorry but it's not my fault. They're going to say whatever they want to say regardless of whether you talk to me or not.' So we had a big long chat about it and he was fine after that. He would tell them all to go and get stuffed. He went back to how he was before which was good. LUCIANO 19 I FIGURED I COULD tell my friends I was gay. I asked them a question first, 'How do you feel about gay people?'.
Page 19 - JUST THE word makes me mad! Masculinity is nothing but a concept — it isn't real, it doesn't really exist. Men are supposed to aspire to it but are all incapable of doing so. How can males be expected not to hurt or break with all the crap and injustice that goes on in our world?
Page 19 - There's a whole big contradiction in society at the moment. Men are now expected to have strength of character, conscience and sensitivity while still having the above 'macho' qualities. If you can't do that then you're not a 'man'.
Page 100 - You never feel the pressure of the other kids, they never laugh at you, they never tease you for what you look like, they encourage you, they say, That's a good technique, but you might want to do it this way'.
Page 124 - I just picked up my bag, walked out of class and said to her, 'I don't have to take this', and walked all the way home. I had to have the rest of that entire week off school because I couldn't just go back there. I remember the day I had to go back to a meeting with her and the principal, and their groups.