Men miss a vital point in resenting feminist criticism: patriarchy has stolen our hearts and is killing us.

As psychologist Terrence Real has pointed out, patriarchy forces boys into a state of profound emotional disconnection from self and others. As they grow into men, this disconnection has tragic consequences for men’s health, their lives and their families.

“Finding his better path: the Boy Code and the modern man“, Calvin Sandborn, briarpatch, March/April, 2008