The ways in which men do be bad and need to be better has, once again, been the talk of the town over the past week or so, and it’s now close to blowing over until the next time Conor McGregor appears in the White House or Andrew Tate tweets at the Tánaiste.
But the conversation – as this one always is – was so mired in confusion, so rife with misunderstanding, that I feel it would be negligible of the commentary class (of which I find myself a part) to let it pass by again without making a few hopefully pertinent points. Foremost among these is that a myopic focus on whatever we mean by toxic masculinity – and that’s far from agreed upon – is allowing much greater issues to fester beneath society’s surface.
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