The Toxicity of Masculinity

Gavin Smith: I get a lot of emails, messages from people who are willing to say things to me because they feel comfortable doing so. And it has not been an uncommon theme for me to hear from other fathers saying, hey, this talks about, I don't want my kids growing up with this. He says masculinity is divided into its species, the sort of vaseous variety, the toxic variety and the non-toxic variety. "I'm going to articulate what I think is wrong with it," he writes in his new paper.