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Mark Greene

Aug 11, 2018

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Why Calling It ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Isn’t Helping

Compassion is how we win this thing

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If we are to address the challenges presented by American masculinity, we need to start by stating what we hope would be obvious: masculinity is not toxic; our culture’s narrow, conformist, violent, bullying, man-box version of it is.

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Why Calling It ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Isn’t Helping

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