We all know how annoying some adolescent boys can be, especially those of us who had the unfortunate experience of being one. The adolescent male attitude seems to be built into our DNA, like a set of rules for bad behavior. Never explain. Never apologize, never admit a mistake, never show sympathy, let alone empathy, never admit that you care about anything except sports, never listen to reason, and never hear any inconvenient facts. We have all been there – at least the male half of the population has been there. Adolescent girls, of course, are perfect in every way, or at least that’s what I’ve been told. This unpleasant masculine stage is probably a necessary rite of passage for young men who are trying to separate emotionally from their mothers and be accepted as real men by their own age group. It’s irritating, but entirely natural and probably served a purpose in more primitive societies when mindless male aggression and toughness was an essential survival mechanism. In