How Not To Be a Boy - Robert Webb

How Not To Be a Boy

Robert Webb

出版时间

2017-08-01

ISBN

9781786890092

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

RULES FOR BEING A MAN

Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father, Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life. Hilarious and heartbreaking, How Not To Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons we learn as sons and daughters, and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life - you're actually Darth Vader.

Robert Webb has been a male for his whole life. As such, he has been a boy in a world of fighting, pointless posturing, and the insistence that he stop crying. As an adult man, he has enjoyed better luck, both in his work as the Webb half of Mitchell & Webb in the Sony award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Sound and the Bafta award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Look, and as permane...

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用户评论
没有想象中那么好。是带有对性别身份见解的自传,仅此而已。
R4 read by the author. 好文笔
脚灯及之后甚少。完美展现了“虽厌恶反例(the assigned role of a "boy"),但因为生活经验完全由反例构成所以大概率还是会一定程度重蹈覆辙”。然后再因此厌恶自己。不过好在书里显示出他最后做到了内心期望的样子,只是中间狂跳了几年,不去挖从意识到问题到行为转变中间的painstaking efforts。(这一段该展开。而不是简单地用自己的人生给显而易见的性别性向社会偏见当实例(不是很好笑有点可惜(竟然以前完全不知道他是个双性恋。。
尽管围绕着性别的讨论,我们仍然生活在一个男孩不应该是不同的,智力,情感或善于社会联系的世界里。由于我们对男性气质的概念仍然过于狭隘,很多男性不知道如何坦诚自己的感受,在社会联系中挣扎,甚至会变得暴虐过度。通过坚持认为男性对典型的 "男性 "追求不感兴趣是可以的,男性哭泣和表现自己的情绪是完全正常的,我们可以给我们的男性气质观念来一次亟需的彻底改革。
作者是Peep show里的Jaz于是当然马上买来看。几乎是反masculinity的回忆录,有点可爱有点难过但是很真实也很sharp。并没有特别讲女权但是这本书的存在对feminism还是很有益的www
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