But asking young men to behave as if they are responsible to others is indeed an attack on masculinity, at least so far as masculinity is defined as the entitlement to behave with indifference to others' dignity and wellbeing.
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Philip Bump
I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."
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That's what the Right has been up to. And as we all know the current position of the Democratic party is doing what the Right did 8 years ago.
I’m also convinced that “boys need male role models to learn healthy masculinity!” implies that women are lesser & unworthy 🙃
To protect and support, to forestall rather than project violence, to be the hand that leaves no one behind.
Basically humanist virtue with some mild gender performance.
In this way the male preoccupation with dominance is inverted.
Boys who learn to box for instance may be performing their gender, but they can also learn how futile dominance displays are, and how fleeting.
I often think of the case of Daniel Penny, who choked Jordan Neely to death on the NY subway.
Penny's actions embody the toxic notion of masculine violence in defence of an imagined community.