Cross, a history professor at Pennsylvania State University, believes contemporary men are refusing to grow up. "They are boy-men, engaged in a veritable rejection of maturity in all its meanings."*
He elaborates on this: “Mocking of convention in celebrations of amoral violent fantasy, crude vulgarity and unrestrained appetite, the boy-man makes a fetish of the ‘cool’."
"He turns maturity into a joke, a pitiful loss to be avoided at almost all costs.”