Conversations: Mental Illness or Masculinity?

After yet another school shooting, this one in Parkland, FL at Stoneman Douglas High School. Things are happening after this, the 18th school shooting in the US so far this year (and it’s only February). Young high schoolers are asking for change and are starting hash tags. THIS is what I mean when I say that our culture and its people are always having varied “conversations” about different topics.

Here’s an interesting new NYTimes Opinion piece on a topic related to school shootings: boys and masculinity. Comedian and parent Michael Ian Black is weighing in on the topic of hyper-masculinity and the strange constraints placed on young men and what makes boys less acceptable to each other. His essay argues that the hyper-masculinity conversation is connected to school shootings.

Read it. See what you think. Comment. Is he right? Is he missing something?