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The new crisis of masculinity

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Misplaced Desire to Belong

Many of the young men I talked to told me about how they didn't have a good relationship with their father or their father wasn't around. And that was part of the reason why they felt kind of lost and were looking for these models online. There are so many fewer male teachers in the school system that you don't see that happening as much anymore. People just don't join community organizations like they used to. In the past, maybe people would go to church and have an intergenerational friendships or be in clubs or lodges.

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