Drawing on careful research interviews, Wade uses an example of a teenage boy discussing his relationships with his friends. This boy went from expressing his feelings with his friends earlier in high school to not expressing his feelings with his friends three or four years later.
So for Wade, his earlier experiences of expressing his feeling with his friends involved face-to-face friendship.
So she sees his movement away from expressing his feelings with his friends as problematic.
Wade launches a broadside critique of images of masculinity in popular culture. I have no problem with her critique of images of masculinity in popular culture.
In any event, her analysis moves her to conclude that teenage boys should cultivate more face-to-face friendships in which they express their feelings.
Wade to the contrary not withstanding, I want to argue that teenage boys who commit suicide have not sufficiently developed a distinctively masculine identity.
In addition, I want to argue that teenage girls who commit suicide have not sufficiently developed a distinctively feminine identity.
Moreover, I want to argue that developing a distinctively masculine identity usually does not involve boys and men in expressing their feelings in face-to-face friendships, as Wade uses this term.
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