Guyland

Guyland

Introduction

In his book "Guyland," sociologist Michael Kimmel New York notes that the traditional markers of "becoming a man", leaving home, getting a degree, find a mate, start a job and be a father, were modified. The passage from adolescence to adulthood, says the professor of the State University of New York, ceased to be "a transition to become a whole new stage of life."

In the U.S., in 1960, about 70 percent of males reached those milestones at age 30. Today, less than a third of those that age can say the same. In Buenos Aires, while only three in ten ...