Saturday, June 04, 2022

Where are the men of courage? They're gone thanks to 'toxic masculinity'

Where are the men of courage? They're gone thanks to 'toxic masculinity'
"So. We vilify action men, brand chivalry and valor “toxic masculinity,” stamp on the manly virtues that made civilization possible.
Then we are shocked when armed cops stand around outside a classroom while children are slaughtered, or when straphangers watch passively as a woman is ­assaulted on the subway.
What’s the answer?
...But armchair Twitter warriors, armed with minimal real data, ranting about cowardice and drumming up death threats for Uvalde police, are missing the point.
  • You can’t bully people to be brave or nag them into valor.
  • They either are or they aren’t that way.
They either are the first responders of 9/11 running toward danger to save strangers, men who strapped on oxygen tanks to climb 110 flights of stairs to their deaths — or they are not.
  • ...Now their inheritors show up at emergencies and the public throws bottles of urine at them. 
  • Social-justice warriors and their eager media accomplices smear cops every day as racists and murderers. #ACAB (“All cops are bastards”) is their favorite hashtag.
  • We pathologize manly virtues and bow to the tyranny of identity politics that seeks power by overthrowing a make-believe patriarchy. 
  • We raise boys in a soup of ­reproach and negativity that tells them their intrinsic nature is ­diseased..."

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