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93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/bulron93 and id is 1 raw text is: SEX AS A TEAM SPORT: A REACTION TO HANNA ROSIN'S THE END OF MEN LIBBY ADLER* If you access the online version of Hanna Rosin's 2010 article, The End of Men,I you will find an embedded video2 in which, according to the caption, Rosin and her daughter debate the superiority of women with Rosin's husband and son. For about five minutes, this two-parent family, headed by accomplished journalists, sits in the kitchen with a roaming toddler while the rest face off at the table, males on one side, females on the other. Rosin supports her bright and confident daughter as the daughter makes her case on behalf of girls and women, then Rosin's husband encourages their young son to give an opening statement on behalf of boys and men. The scene is beyond contrived: it has the quality of each person stepping into a prescribed role having little to do with his or her actual experience. There is, for example, some discussion of boys' and men's greater physical strength, but neither the son nor the father looks like the first person you would call to help you move. The father, Slate editor David Plotz,3 appears rather bookish, and it is hard to imagine that physical strength is what he really values about himself. And the smart money is on the daughter beating up her younger brother, not the other way around. The boys' team makes an argument that civilization's great inventions and creations have been produced largely by men, but it is odd that they draw their examples from so far outside the household (for example, Van Gogh and Picasso) when the husband has made his life with another professional in his same field. You do not get the feeling that he sees his wife as less than his professional equal, especially now, as he * Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law. Many thanks to Aziza Ahmed, Janet Halley, and Kara Swanson for fun conversations as well as helpful comments on earlier drafts. Thanks also to Liza Hays, football player and research assistant extraordinaire. I Hanna Rosin, The End of Men, ATLANTIC, July/Aug. 2010, at 56, available at http://www.theatlantic.con/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/30813 5/?singlepage =true. 2 Resolved: Girls Are Better Than Boys, ATLANTIC, http://link.brightcove.com/services/pl ayer/bcpid42950271001?bckey=AQ-,AAAABvb_NGE-,DMkZt2E6wO3Ltfleoh6Zb7Qd QVJE3mcx&bctid=89556585001 (last visited Feb 21, 2013). 3 Authors: David Plotz, SLATE, http://www.slate.con/authors.david-plotz.html (last visited Feb. 21, 2013). 1

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