Resisting The Macho Code: Raising Boys to Be Men

Matthew Oldridge
4 min readJan 15, 2020

Canadians of a certain age might remember “Rock Em Sock Em Hockey”, a series of videotapes sold over the t.v. and chock full of bone-rattling hits, fights, and general mayhem. It was the 1980s, and if you went to a junior hockey team in any town, you were likely to see all-out brawls, with fans seemingly baying for blood. This was before concussion protocols. This was the heyday of the “enforcer”, or…

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Matthew Oldridge

Writing about creativity, books, productivity, education, particularly mathematics, music, and whatever else “catches my mind”. ~Thinking about things~