The wounded-boy theory is in many ways like Freud's theory of women's penis envy: a speculation that reveals less about the subject's feelings than about the prejudices of the theorist and the mood of the times.
THE wounded-boy theory got a lot of publicity, but it was never supported by a solid body of published data, as Christina Hobserveders observed in her manifesto published last year, "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men Simonon & Schuster).
I'm have sent 2D Boy this theory and await their response.
Equally encouraging is that although most of the female designers over the age of 35 with whom I discussed this issue endorsed Ms. Crawford's "boys' club" theory (for the record, every male designer looked blank) some younger ones did not.
To appeal to their pre-pubescent fanbase, boy bands, the theory goes, must exist in a state of perpetual adolescence.
At the very least, Arthur is in trouble with Booby and his gang - and Chris, the boy who in theory knows that the real trick is not caring, is in no doubt as to the risk of going out and looking for his mate, thus becoming guilty by association.
After an introduction to the theory, boys and girls over eight grapple with dinghies supervised by Omani instructors.
"New York merchants preferred to hire country boys, on the theory that they worked harder, and were more resolute, obedient, and cheerful than native New Yorkers," Irvin G. Wyllie wrote in his 1954 study "The Self-Made Man in America".
Although in theory the boy king was himself the ruler, the government was in fact controlled by Archbishop Hatto I of Mainz and by Salomo, bishop of Constance (Konstanz).
For five days, Barnes talked while Lee, older, hard-bitten, nodded and let the boy play out his theories.
