Archive - What Are Grown-Ups For?

The Well-Trained Boy

On Ruth Whippman's 'BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity'

Nov 22 •

Elizabeth Grace Matthew

Why I worry about my sons’ maturity, not their masculinity

The so-called "masculinity crisis" is really just a maturity crisis that more visibly impacts males.

Nov 19 •

Elizabeth Grace Matthew

Why Rosie Riveted

The female strength that makes this country great begins with the admission that women and men are not exactly the same.

Nov 15 •

Elizabeth Grace Matthew

'The Lion King' at 30

What Disney once got right about life, death, and responsibility

Nov 12 •

Elizabeth Grace Matthew

How Progressive Author Nellie Bowels' "Morning After the Revolution" Shows Our Societal Decay

And How It Might Help to Explain Why Harris Lost

Nov 8 •

Elizabeth Grace Matthew

Masculinity, Motherhood, and American Moxie

Looking back at The Sopranos 25 years later, it's clear that the show made some prescient points.

Nov 4 •

Elizabeth Grace Matthew

Why I'm Reading the Original American Girl Books to my Sons

Virtue knows no sex (even when the manifestation of it does).

Nov 1 •

Elizabeth Grace Matthew

October 2024

All About "What Are Grown-Ups For?"

On Infantilization and its Discontents.

Oct 30 •

Elizabeth Grace Matthew

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