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QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG MEN:
1) At what age did you begin training to be a man? Did you have a blue blanket or a pink one? 2) Did you play with dolls when you were a child? Did your sister? 3) Did you have toy tools? Did your sister? 4) Were you called a cry-baby and told that boys don’t cry? 5) How old were you before your parents decided you were too old to shower with your sisters and/or your girl cousins? Did they they tell you why? 6) When did you stop playing in mixed groups and start to play only with boys? How was this enforced by the other boys and by adults? 7) When did you stop playing non-competitive games like leap-frog and start playing competitive games like baseball? Who taught you? 8) How did the other guys get you to play these sompetative [sic] games? How important to you was it to win? How important was it not to be the worst/last? What happened to the people who came in last? 9) How often did you see your father when you were young? How often did you see your mother? Were your teachers in school mostly men or mostly women? Why? 10) Did your father do any of the housework? Did he sweep the floors? Dust? Buy groceries? 11) Does your mother hold a job outside the house? Who makes more money, your father or your mother? 12) Have you ever heard of a household in which the woman holds down a job for money and the man stays at home and does the housework? If not, why not? 13) Does your mother resent the years of her life which she spent confined to your house? 14) Is your mother an oppressed woman? 15) What kind of chores have you had to do around the house? Did you wash dishes and clean? Did you mow the lawn and take out the garbage? What kind of chores do the girls that you know perform? 16) Did you have more freedom than girls your age? 17) What did you do to earn money? Did you babysit? Have a paper route?  Source: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). 18) Did boys and girls play baseball together when you were in high school? Were gym classes co-ed? 19) How many girls took auto shop? How many guys tooks [sic] home economics or typing? 20) How do classes react to “ugly” women teachers? What does “ugly” mean?  Source: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). 21) How many famous women can you name, not counting movie stars and the wives of famous men? 22) Who was Sojourner Truth? Susan B. Anthony? Clara Barton? Margaret Sanger?[1] What were you told about the women’s sufferage [sic] movement in your history courses?  Source: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). 23) Did you have a sex education class? Did you talk about homosexuality? Masturbation? The clitoris? Lesbians? 24) Do you ever hug or kiss your male friends? If not, why not? 25) Do you ever worry that your penis is too small? Would it make any difference if it were smaller than the penises of your friends? Who do you allow to see you naked? 26) Does your school provide birth control information? 27) What would you do if your girlfriend needed an abortion? 28) Have you ever heard of a “loose woman”? Is that name a compliment? Have you ever heard of a “loose man”? 29) Is it important to you to go out with a lot of different women? Are the guys who do admired? Why? 30) Do girls ever ask you out? Would you like it if they did? Why or why not? Who pays on dates?  31) Are you hung-up about being or not being a “virgin”? 32) Who gets aroused faster sexually, boys or girls? Who told you that? 33) Do you like your body?  34) Do you ever stare at women or make sexual remarks to strangers on the street? Do women ever do this to you? 35) Would you want to be judged on the basis of the length of your penis or how much hair you have on your chest? If a woman walked up to you on the street, grabbed your penis, and said, “How are you today, Baby,” would you be flattered? 36) If you were in a dangerous situation with your girlfriend would you rather defend her or have her defend herself? Could you defend her? Could she defend herself? 37) Do you know any teenyboppers, bitches, foxy ladies? Do you know any bachelor girls or old maids? Are these names compliments? 38) Do you feel obliged to make sexual advances toward a girl you go out with? Do girls ever “let you” do things to them? Why? Do you ever let girls do things to you sexually? 39) Do you touch girls casually? Do they touch you? What does it mean when a girl touches you? Does the principal of your school ever put his arm around your shoulder? What does that mean?  Source: Film Screenshot (Republic Pictures) – http://www.cinema.de, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons. 40) Did you ever get into a fight with another guy who you weren’t really mad at? Who proved what? 41) Isn’t it a pain to try to be John Wayne or Mick  Source: Larry Rogers – http://www.flickr.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. Jagger or your uncle or Muhammed Ali or super-stud? Wouldn’t you rather just be yourself?
[Transcribed by Hannah Cohen and Rebecca Debus] |
[1] Sojourner Truth (d. 1883) was a black suffragist and abolitionist; Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was a prominent U.S. suffragist; Clara Barton (1821-1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross; and Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was a birth control advocate, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and, unfortunately, a eugenicist.
