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You Throw Like a Girl

The Blind Spot of Masculinity

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You Throw Like a Girl

By: Don McPherson
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
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In You Throw Like a Girl, former Syracuse University quarterback and NFL veteran Don McPherson examines how the narrow definition of masculinity adversely impacts women and creates many "blind spots" that hinder the healthy development of men. Dissecting the strict set of beliefs and behaviors that underpin our understanding of masculinity, he contends that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

Using examples from his own life, including his storied football career, McPherson passionately argues that viewing violence against women as a "women's issue" not just ignores men's culpability but conflates the toxicity of men's violence with being male. In You Throw Like a Girl, McPherson leads us beyond the blind spots and toward solutions, analyzing how we can engage men in a sustained dialogue, with a new set of terms that are aspirational and more accurately representative of the emotional wholeness of men.

©2019 Don McPherson (P)2019 Tantor Gender Studies Social Sciences Violence in Society Sports

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My first book on masculinity. It is an engaging book with a lot to say, albeit in some chapters there is a lot of repetition and the entirety of the book could have possibly been reduced by 50 pages. That being said, it is well presented, written and narrated. I enjoyed it a lot, and it Isa good introduction into examination of masculinity. The writer is honest, and vulnerable and attempts to not degrade masculinity in any way. Rather he wishes is to examine what it means to be a man and to take responsibility for this examination. In the end, it is men who will benefit from this, as well as women.

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