We shouldn’t blame toxic masculinity for Toronto’s van attack, by @DrDebraSoh https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-we-shouldnt-blame-toxic-masculinity-for-torontos-van-attack/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links … via @GlobeDebate
Last & out, as I've gone on. As I look at these debates, I regard as insane the idea that a) trad masculinity lacked the disciplinary tools I mention; b) it is the basis of 'incel' assumptions; c) it dominates our social messaging still; d) doubling down on the last 50y is answer
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One extra set comes to mind. The problem is better framed not as celibacy in 20s = > violence; but rather as the overlap of 1. No expectation of having sex in future or informed idea of how to have it, + 2. Culture that has increasingly equated sex with adulthood, + 3..../
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3. Culturally generated assumption that everyone else is having sex all the time. Inaccurate though this probably is for any decade. 4. Over time reduction in social sanction for male camaraderie that used to redirect energy. So to speak. The last is still available, but needs/
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support from a culture that doesn't treat it only as a diversion/poor substitute for ostensibly constant sex. These things shouldn't be this hard to discuss.
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