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#537 - Richard Reeves - Does Anyone Care About Men's Struggles?

Modern Wisdom

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Toxic Masculinity

Toxic masculinity is a term that was used to apply essentially to any behavior by boys and men that the user disapproved of. It's rarely defined without any specificity at all. The idea of toxic, it's like Puritan. It's not the idea of original sin in Christian Theologies right and you need these exorcisms. If you just weren't so male you'd be okay. Having raised three boys to adulthood I got to tell you that idea that something toxic in them has to be expunged is not a helpful way to raise them.

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