At least seventeen people were killed and 15 injured when 19-year-old ex-student of the school, Nikolas Cruz, opened fire at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida. While he has been arrested, the question still remains – why this violence?
In his recent string of tweets, Comedian Michael Ian Black gives us one plausible answer to the complicated question – the toxic masculinity and how it breeds the gun violence epidemic.
With the rise in the number of mass shootings in the US, one is left to ponder the question of why someone has to kill innocents? And Black’s tweet is the answer.
Today we are fighting for women so that they get to ditch the garb of patriarchy, but the ancient concept of masculinity that men live has never been questioned. A boy is taught from a young age to hide his emotions with emotionless ‘Men don’t cry.’ He is conditioned to suppress his basic feelings, as an expression of emotions by a man seemingly reduces their ‘manhood.’
Isn’t he right? We need to talk about it and initiate change in our homes.