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Feminist Prof Blames Masculinity for…

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Just about everything. “Toxic masculinities, some claimed, were behind sexual assault, mass shootings, and the weird thing where men refuse to wear sunscreen, but they didn’t reflect masculinity generally, so one had to leave that idea alone,” Occidental College sociologist Lisa Wade writes in an essay. “But we can only give masculinity so many modifiers for so long before we have to confront the possibility that it is masculinity itself that has become the problem.”

Malcolm A. Kline
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.

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