126: The Attack on Boyhood—Dr. Anthony Esolen

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🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Who cares about boys? Almost….nobody! Our culture focuses on feminist concerns, the wage gap myth, girls’ health, and so on. Boys and boyhood are simply not interesting or valuable enough for the elites to talk about.

Dr. Anthony Esolen had enough. So he wrote a fine book, Defending Boyhood, which lays out the problem, provides some historical context along with tons of examples from novels and movies. The need to support and defend boyhood is urgent and (if you have eyes to see) obvious.

In this episode you will learn

Why there is no perfect “golden age” where things were perfect but the principles and values of boyhood were much healthier
The effect of the failed Sexual Revolution on the world of boys
Why boys are in special need of rituals of self-discovery in ways girls are not
The connection between absent or abusive fathers and the homosexual impulse
How contraception disrupted the relationship between men and women, and hence the family, and how this affected our perception of boys (and children in general)
Why boys love to sing if the songs tell manly tales
How to survive in a culture bereft of institutions and clubs devoted to the care and growth of boys qua boys.

Resources mentioned in this episode

Defending Boyhood: How Building Forts, Reading Stories, Playing Ball, and Praying to God Can Change the World by Anthony Esolen
The Works of Rudyard Kipling
Penrod: Illustrated Edition by Booth Tarkington
Touchstone Magazine featuring Esolen’s contributions

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the episode 126 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:06.0	Today we're going to talk about boyhood.
0:08.0	Who cares about boyhood?
0:09.0	Nobody, which is why a book had to be written about it called defending boyhead with Dr Anthony
0:14.3	Eslin. We are going to drill deep into some very important content even if you don't have
0:19.3	sons even if you're not a boy the role of boyhood and how it's being attacked by our current cultural
0:26.9	elites is a very important topic and it affects everything else we say about recovering
0:32.0	the DNA damage done to the culture.
0:34.1	Defending Boyhood is the name of the book and we're going to go long and deep here on the
0:39.4	Patrick Coffin show with its author.
0:41.1	Want to mention we are still, we we are still we are going to Germany and
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1:03.5	Join us with Father Willie Raymond.
1:06.2	We're gonna hit, let's see, Regensburg and Obramagow,
1:12.0	and the Dachowagow death camp.
1:14.0	We're gonna have Mass at the Carmelite Monastery.
1:15.0	We're gonna go to Salzburg, Austria,
1:17.0	where the Sound of Music was filmed.
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