How do our rigid notions of what makes a “real man” contribute to unspeakable acts of violence? Could it be that we’re socially conditioned to feel like we need to defend our manhood, with violence if necessary? Could it be that mass murder is the unfortunate and rare offshoot of that same masculine defensiveness taken to its extreme end?
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Posts Tagged “men”
When at least two football players from Steubenville, OH were found to have raped a teenage girl last August, the team’s coaches vehemently denied their players had done anything wrong, blaming the victim. Is it possible that these boys didn’t question what they were doing because of the attitudes of their role models in school and society as a whole? Furthermore, can pre-emptively teaching them not to be creepy also teach them not to commit rape?
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Pinterest has grown quickly to become the 3rd largest social network on the web, and has a user base that’s over 80% women. So what does this mean for men, and for that matter, for women?
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Is it ever okay to refer to an adult woman as a girl? Many will tell you, “absolutely not, no, not ever.” What about referring to a man as a boy? It’s not as simple as you might think.
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