
Their unruly maleness will not be contained, as mine finally was, by a sense of sadness at an older man’s injured pride. Their anger won’t be checked by the intimation of danger that would come upon me whenever I split another boy’s lip or raced down a highway with gin clouding my head.

How come nobody is saying anything about “whenever I split another boy’s lip”?
How many lips did this bully actually split? Obviously, more than one, right?
And Mittens cutting somebody’s hair when he was fifteen is the real bully?
WTF is wrong with these people?
prolly a small boy – possibly gay? War on Gays™