I completely agree with your response to this posting on 'Raising Boys' and see it as yet further evidence of the increasingly unhealthy trend in the latter part of the last century towards a feminisation of our culture. What we are producing is not a healthy nation or society of children which are more comfortable with theirselves and members of the other gender/sex but rather a society / culture of anxious and neurotic children whose identity is neither an affirmation of masculinity or feminity but a misguided and I hope (though doubt)shortlived experiment which leaves both genders uncertain and confused as to whether there is really any such thing as a firm identity by which they can confirm themselves.

I am not at all sure whether I can take this entry as seriously as I might as it is resonant of many male fantasies that may be found in the biographies of cross-dressed and transvestite men. Think future - think devaluation and denial of the virtues of masculine archetypes - think lost and absent fathers and (euphemism of euphemisms) 'Single Parents' ('absent fathers' are no fathers at all and the lack of any mention of a male in this entry raises my suspicions that if this is not fantasy then it IS neurotic and quite possibly cruel.

K Hatton PhD (Psy Sussex UK)