Packaging BOYhood?

TIME OUT! Hi all, we'd love to get your help on something. You may know that along with Mark Tappan, we're beginning to write about the ways boyhood is marketed and sold to boys through media of all kinds. Packaging Boyhood will look at how clothing lines, toys, video games, TV shows, music, books, etc. are sold to boys and the image of masculinity promoted in them.

To write this book, we need to know not only what forms of media boys are into and what messages they receive, but also what parents are most concerned about when it comes to the media their boys are exposed to or engaged with. Is it the violence in video games, the pseudo-drinking and partying behavior in tween Nick shows, the attitude in attitude tees, the sexually degrading lyrics in music? Are there positive options for boys out there? Books, shows, music both you and your son love?

And if you have daughters and sons, what differences are you noticing in the media they're consuming.

It would be so great if you could help us highlight issues we should address in the book or point us to certain TV shows, video games, or music lyrics you think are good, bad, or questionable.

Your help could come in a number of ways:

1. You could email us with issues, products, messages that concern you and you think we should look more closely at. (Feel free to drop a line whenever you see something that strikes you as really good or really bad.) slamb@smcvt.edu or lmbrown@colby.edu

2. You could go with your son to http://www.packagingboyhood.com/ and fill out our survey there.

3. Or if you live anywhere near us, help us arrange a focus group of boys to interview!

Thanks for your help. We're still blogging about girls...we just tend to wait until we get the urge because something outrageous has irked us again.

Comments

[hello]

i wish you would write about -a-that the chinese girl in the suite life wasnt a complete air head
that many children's and young adult shows are gross, idotic, and pointless-that mindless sex, explotions/violence and beer are the three most important things in a guy life
Maybe deal with or give pointers to the nice guys who have trouble getting a good relationship
yet other unkind people do.
The culture of The man show, porn or pornish advestisting and etc Why it is a good be a virgin and wait for marriage rather than a stigma. Deal with hyper violence and sexuality in anime and adult cartoons

Deal with drinking (or not drinking) in a responible way
deal with books and people and mindset-like the A-to Z guide to maclininity and I hope they serve beer in hell- Tales of a Guy who is a total ***** jerk)compare to dangerous book for boys and daring book for girls
deal with hook ups and broken hearts
deal with celebration of drug/substance abuse with a emphasis on the untold and undealt with connection with aliention from family and job and mental illness -
Deal with Power and presidge -controlling mantiplive behavior

watch the movie escape from afflencia and study the phemonation that society takes the worse from guys and creates this stereotype of guys which the guys and the girl -copy-see all american pie, and other raunchy movies-see also anti intelligence, "pimpology"-drug/profanity
hyper violence/sexuality
and desensized via music, horror movies/other movies (did we need a saw 4?) and other stuff
this is a good place to start !

[The Not Quite Crunchy Parent]

I just was referred to your blog by one of my readers. I write on these issues as well.

Great project! I am a mom and a marketer and would love to help with this project. Check out my blog and let me know if I can provide some insights or assistance!

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