School Shootings Not Due To Toxic Masculinity, But Lack Of Masculinity

Hear author James Hasson on NPR today.

For more go here: School Shootings Aren’t Due To Toxic Masculinity, But A Lack Of Masculinity

Any discussion of the mass shooting crisis must include the cultural rot of masculinity. The problem is not with men, but with a culture that allows boys to remain boys well into adulthood.

In the wake of the Parkland tragedy, America is searching for the cause of this senseless attack on innocent children. Gun laws, a broken mental health system, and “toxic masculinity” are just a few of suggested causes of our nation’s epidemic of mass gun violence. I’d like to focus on the third topic. Toxic masculinity is not plaguing our society — a lack of masculinity is.

Stories of heroism by every day people always emerge from tragedies like last Wednesday’s, providing a side-by-side comparison of authentic masculinity versus a perverted, caricaturized version of what it means to be a man.

Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach at Parkland High School and the father of a young daughter, stepped in front of a hail of bullets fired at children by a coward, sacrificing his life to save theirs. Feis could have run, rationalizing his flight because others depended on him back home, but instead he used his body as a shield and absorbed an attack meant for those more vulnerable than he was. “‘He shielded two kids from being shot. He took the bullets himself,’” student Julien Decoste, told NBC News. “As I was being escorted out of the building, I had to step over him.”

There were two males in that hallway in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday afternoon — one behaved like a man, the other did the opposite.

I am not linking any policy or cultural trend to the specifics of this instance or this particular shooter (whose name is not worth mentioning), and it would be simplistic to blame a single cause for the crisis we see today. The copycat factor fueled by wall-to-wall coverage of mass shooters, for instance, likely plays a role to some extent. 

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