In You Throw Like a Female, former Syracuse College or university quarterback and NFL experienced Don McPherson examines how the small definition of masculinity adversely impacts women and creates many ‘blind spots’ that hinder the healthy advancement of men. Dissecting the stringent set of beliefs and manners that underpin our understanding of masculinity, he contends that people don’t raise young boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

Using examples from his personal life, including his storied soccer job, McPherson passionately argues that observing violence against women being a ‘women’s issue’ not just ignores men’s culpability but conflates the toxicity of men’s violence with becoming male. In You Toss Like a Girl, McPherson prospects us beyond the blind spots and toward solutions, examining how exactly we can indulge men inside a suffered dialogue, with a fresh set of terms that are aspirational and more accurately consultant of the emotional wholeness of men.