Doris Lessing's age is interesting in this case. She is the same generation as my mother. The difference in views and attitudes toward men between that generati

Doris Lessing's age is interesting in this case. She is the same generation as my mother. The difference in views and attitudes toward men between that generation, my wife's generation, and my daughter's generation is concerning enough that I go out of my way to teach my grandson that it's great to be a man. Hopefully it will be enough to counterbalance the unthinking, automatic, and pervasive attacks on his masculinity that I have seen him experience at school and sometimes at home.