Oprah Writer Tries To Debunk Reckless Idiot Male Psyche  When I
was thirteen, one of my best friends was a semi-professional
rollerblader. I know, how swooningly mid-90s, but we were all
impressed by his death-defying stunts. Well, some people were
impressed. I was mostly terrified. I recall vividly the summer
afternoon when he decided that he would launch himself out of
his second story bedroom window, onto the trampoline below.
There were maybe five of us present that day, and while the rest
of my friends cheered him wholeheartedly, I sat in white-
knuckled silence, convinced that he was going to maim himself. I
also remember thinking: fucking boys. No girl would be stupid
enough to jump out of her own window, even if there were a
trampoline below.  In this month's O: The Oprah Magazine, short
story writer Jim Shepard attempts to explain exactly why "Men Do
Crazy Things." "For all our gender stereotyping about the way
men fetishize the rational," Shepard writes, "here's one of the
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