Guyland

This is a nonfiction book based on the documented life of guys transiting to early adulthood so about 16 through 26. It is called Guyland: The perilous world where boys become Men by Michael Kimmel who has also written Manhood in America. I guess you’re wondering why in the world I would read a nonfiction book about guys even though I am girl. But I couldn’t help myself i mean it was always there on the table near my desk and one day I was curios enough to pick it up to read. You know what? The first page that I landed on said something about porn. Ok now I bet that perked your ears a bit but no I’m not that perverted it just I didn’t expect to see something like that in the book which stupid because this book is about guys in that are around that raging hormonal ages. But isn’t the point because the more I read the more I became interested in this book.

                The parts I was very focused on was bullying and hazing. Because I couldn’t believe the thing that guys would do to each to prove there real men. But I really shouldn’t just say that about guys because it also had short excerpt of the things that girls would to get accepted as well. That isn’t all I got an impression from this book is that guys are more what they seem from the outside. Because what I have read had made guys look...pitiable I mean it seem that many guys can’t handle having their ego's bruised. But it seem guys have to go through a lot to prove themselves it make me glad that I am a girl and an incredibly oblivious one as well. This book isn’t a handbook exactly about every males on the globe but it’s still in depth study of parts of the male psyche. I have yet finished this book but I will read more of it because I find it intriguing and some other people out there will agree with me too.