The swallowing of Male anger

[RogerAllamsFangirl]

I saw this article and thought it was very interesting - about men's anger, how it makes them more likely to be "shooters" about why women generally do not perpetrate violent crime at the same rates as men.

https://medium.com/@alexhasopinions/the-swallowing-of-male-anger-4c8b6a52c469]

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Thanks Upstart

Yes, interesting.

Male mass shooters are often dismissed as people with mental health problems.

And of course women also have mental health problems but very rarely are mass shooters.

Thought that the Anti-Social Personality Disorder thing was interesting. Women tend to be self-destructive. Men tend to destroy property, commit arson, and are violent to others.

I've been wondering about this sort of thing. We know that men who commit mass shootings have very often previously been abusive to women. There is clearly a connection between different forms of male violence. But does knowing that actually help very much? After all, male violence against women is endemic but most violent men nonetheless do not go on to become mass shooters.

The not very original conclusion I come to is that toxic masculinity is indeed toxic and is going to cause a huge (even huger than already) problem for society unless we can encourage men like Alex to speak out even more.

Society glorifies male violence. Perhaps we should stop?
Too obvious?