Imagine a man wearing a dress to a wedding reception and crying at the moment the couple are announced husband and wife. Is a man wearing a dress and crying a little too feminine in a situation like a wedding? The point is, should boys ever act and be like girls? Cooper Thompson, who wrote "A New Vision of Masculinity," proposes to change the masculinity in males by "[socializing] boys more like girls" (Leonard Eron …showed first 75 words of 915 total…

…showed last 75 words of 915 total…from that and slowly the issues of today's society will fade away. Finding a way to help men and women to have equality should not be focused on having "boys [be] like girls" (70). Therefore, males should not have to give up their qualities or change them in anyway. Work Cited Thompson, Cooper. "A New Vision of Masculinity." Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric, and Handbook. 3rd ed. Susan Bachmann and Melinda Barth. New York: Longman, 2001. 65-72.