Saturday, May 26, 2018

Toxic Masculinity

There is a movement to claim that toxic masculinity causes gun violence.

First, of all I reject the notion that masculinity is inherently toxic. If young men are not taught to deal with reality directly, but justly and humanely, their delegitimized masculinity can turn toxic and sick. If they were raised to be boys, manly, protective, self-controlled, protective but courteous and repsectful, especially towards women, individuating young men could express their anger, deal with their frustration in socially acceptable and constructive ways, without being immature, and bizarre, grabbing a gun, and shooting up the world that has "wronged them".

Two, if all children were taught gun safety classes by the NRA, and were raised in godly homes as little maverizers, principled, calm and taught to grow into adults that are heavily armed, highly trained, deeply moral soldiers of God, to serve in days army literally in the state and local militia, as well as spiritually living as armed living angels to serve God, then masculinity and femininity would not turn toxic, and massive, public outbreaks of gun violence as a form of outrage and protest against society would disappear.

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