ABSTRACT
No one can really understand how men treat women without understanding how men treat other men—and no one can really understand how men treat other men without understanding how men treat women. The father-son relationship is usually a boy's first exposure to this complex interlock of sexual politics. The lessons he learns in this relationship last a lifetime, and they become the basis of all he ever believes to be true about who he is supposed to be in relation to women and to other men.
