On Toxic Masculinity

Have you seen the story about the former Lt Governor of Virginia who shot his wife and himself while his children were in the other room?

Or about the man in Louisiana who shot women and children, house by house, most of whom were his?

Or how about the website where men were being trained to drug and rape their wives? 62 million visits.

Million.

I’ll be honest that a lot of these stories, all recent, were at the bottom of my newsfeed. The world is so crazy, it’s hard to see some of the undercurrents of toxic masculinity still invading our communities, even as it openly bleeds from the halls of power daily.

It’s more than a headline.

Toxic masculinity + open access to guns + a culture of “boys will be boys” + macho manosohere bs is killing women and children.

And, unfortunately, we have become so numb to these events, to these headlines, that they don’t even register anymore.

How are you going to train boys not to rape and kill?

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