The New Macho
Our current administration is inspiring a new surge of concern over the toxic and oppressive aspects of masculinity. See Frank Bruni’s very good article Donald Trump, Manly He-Man. There is also growing concern that a culture that doesn’t teach its children how to channel aggression into healthy assertion and only celebrates masculinity within a very narrow range — a range that doesn’t allow the expression of any feelings of fear or grief — is sending young men out to buy gu
