Here at CNN Center, we're lucky on this Father's Day to have a lot of young dads among us. Our company's computer system frequently flashes happy announcements of new fatherhood. There's a tough reality here, though. Of course, these are extreme, horrible instances of boyhood gone mad. They're the exception, not the rule.
Newsmen go home to their supper tables each night, too.
That code of expectations, he says, is still passed from father to son, still enforced by shame, still insistent that guys must show little if any emotion in order to be manly. A lot of us older boys are walking around with such directives working on us. Something slightly less civilized gets into the air. As Pollack tells us, the Code lives. But if you do, make sure the other guy comes out looking worse than you.