"By carefully and soberly examining his own story, Sexton deconstructs American life and gives many examples of how pervasive Toxic Masculinity is in our culture." Henry Rollins, Los Angeles Times "This book is critically important to our historical moment .
He is an associate professor of creative writing at Ge.
He is a contributing political writer at Salon, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
About the Author JARED Yates Sexton is the author of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore.
Sexton turns his keen eye to the establishment of the racist patriarchal structure which has favored white men, and investigates the personal and societal dangers of such outdated definitions of manhood.
Deeply personal and thoroughly researched, The Man They Wanted Me to Be examines how we teach boys what\'s expected of men in America, and the long-term effects of that socialization which include depression, shorter lives, misogyny, and suicide.
Donald Trump\'s campaign successfully leveraged male resentment and entitlement, and now, with Trump as president and the rise of the #Me Too movement, it\'s clear that our current definitions of Masculinity are outdated and even dangerous.
As progressivism changes American society, and globalism shifts labor away from traditional manufacturing, the roles that have been prescribed to men since the Industrial Revolution have been rendered as obsolete.
Jared Yates Sexton alternates between an examination of his working class upbringing and historical, psychological, and sociological sources that examine the genesis of Toxic Masculinity and its consequences for society.
C]rackles with intensity and absolutely refuses to allow the reader to look away for even a moment from the blight that Toxic Masculinity in America has wrought." Nicholas Cannariato, NPR Based on his provocative and popular New York Times op-ed, The Man They Wanted Me to Be is both memoir and cultural analysis. . . "By carefully and soberly examining his own story, Sexton deconstructs American life and gives many examples of how pervasive Toxic Masculinity is in our culture." Henry Rollins, Los Angeles Times "This book is critically important to our historical moment
