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originally posted by: loam
Are boys 'broken'? Another mass shooting renews debate on toxic masculinity
After 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz was accused of gunning down 17 people at a Florida high school last week, comedian Michael Ian Black started a thread on Twitter that sparked a vitriolic debate about the role of gender in gun violence. It began with the tweet, "Deeper even than the gun problem is this: boys are broken."
Black's tweet has been liked nearly 65,000 times. In an interview with NPR on Sunday, he elaborated.
"I think it means that there is something going on with American men that is giving them the permission and space to commit violence," he said. "And one of the main things we focus on correctly is guns and mental health, but I think deeper than that is a problem, a crisis in masculinity."
As a parent of a young white adolescent male, this kind of thinking makes me want to perpetrate some toxic masculinity of my own on people who subscribe to this perspective.
What could possibly go wrong with making young impressionable boys feel there is something inherently wrong with them? And let's be clear, it's not just restricted to their sex. The cultural message includes race and sexuality too.
I can't imagine what it would have been like to have been raised in today's climate.
I wonder where we will be in 10 to 15 years from now, when the current crop of 8-18 year olds reaches adulthood after an entire childhood of being told that if you are white, straight, and male (actually you only need to be one of the three to be demonized) there is something inherently bad about you.
Spiting nails over this repulsive nonsense.
I wonder where we will be in 10 to 15 years from now, when the current crop of 8-18 year olds reaches adulthood after an entire childhood of being told that if you are white, straight, and male (actually you only need to be one of the three to be demonized) there is something inherently bad about you.
originally posted by: Dfairlite
a reply to: Wayfarer
Whose problem is slavery from 150 years ago?
Whose problem is manspreading? (only one gender can sit comfortably or they're inconsiderate)
whose problem is mansplaining? (We used to call this condescension and everyone was capable of it)
which is the only race capable of racism?
whose problem is it if a man doesn't want to date another man pretending to be a woman?
who is blamed for all of the wars around the world?
I could go on and on and on. But you probably won't even finish reading that short list. Why should I waste my time?
originally posted by: Dfairlite
a reply to: Wayfarer
You have provided zero facts as I asked, and instead opted to compile a list of projection based on your 'feelings'
So you deny that the current pop culture in a America is anti-straight, anti-white, and anti-male?