[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Well I was brought up with Action men, hornby train sets and football tops. I wonder when I will start raping women and beating up pensioners.

What does anything you said have to do with this topic?

That's like saying "well i smoke and don't have cancer, so why are so many people saying that smoking causes cancer?"

Forcing gender roles, especially hyp[er-masculine roles on children is damaging, and i would argue the school shootings in the US have a lot to do with reinforcing hyp[er masculine gender roles on males, because thane they can't live up to them, they feel the need to make those kind of hyper masculine actions to prove how powerful and dominant they are. They are frustrated , they are told that in order to be a "real man" they have to be dominant and aggressive. Most of them are young men who feel emasculated by society, told that they aren't real men because they aren't dominant enough. They only feel the need to be masculine to begin with because society tells them that being masculine means being aggressive and violent and dominant.

I don't think there's anything wrong with telling boys that you don't have to be hyper masculine to be a REAL MAN>

just like there's nothing wrong with telling girls that it's okay to be confident and assertive to be a REAL WOMAN>