ABSTRACT
Over a decade ago a shiŽ occurred within a majority of the public men’s bathrooms in the United States. At issue was the appearance of changing tables. In response to the appearance of these tables, Calvin Trillin (1995) wondered within the pages of the New Yorker if the presence of a cooing baby being changed by a soŽ, sensitive father would alter the traditional edginess found in men’s rooms. Trillin’s observation of traditional edginess and his curiosity regarding contemporary soŽness depict signiŠcant features of the social representation and compromise formation that characterize a general psychology of masculinities.
