How Not To Be a Boy

This was a throughly enjoyable read! Sometimes rather self indulgent in tone, nevertheless Robert Webb delivers a very raw and honest expose of his early years struggling with his masculinity and sexuality. His childhood was a difficult one to say the least and this leads to confusing adolescence which in turn makes his adult life far from simplistic. His observations around masculinity and gender were deeply intriguing to me and while some of his explanations seemed rather simplistic or idealistic or overtly cynical, I throughly invested in his sentiment. I love that he is looking to re address and acknowledge the way in which masculinity and gender expectation / patriarchy or as he refers to it ‘The Trick' is letting down not just women but men. The things he discusses in this book are things I've mulled over many times myself but he can articulate them much more beautifully than me. I loved his openness about his past memories and his past mistakes. Overall an autobiography yes. But indefinitely much more more than that. I highly recommend this to any kind of reader. This is a book that will enrich anybody's mindset around gender just a little bit more. And it will definitely make you laugh at times and cry at others. So go and enjoy it! Because I can assure you I definitely did !!!