The comedian Michael Ian Black penned a popular op-ed for the New York Times in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 to say that “boys are broken.” The culprit: masculinity.

Men with a history of violence are more likely to repress their feelings and emotions and to have trouble expressing those feelings.

In this sense, men who are domestically violent are those who most dramatically demonstrate cul- tural images of masculinity (see a discussion in Connell, 1987).

et he argues that all men organize their lives around conceptions of masculinity,

opular cultural representations of men under stress typically depict masculinized responses to stress, including aggression, alcoho] consumption, or a stoic refusal to let stress interfere with getting the job done (Savran, 1998).

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