If I have sounded like a broken record these past months, it is because these developments in American public health are as important as they are horrifying.
Not that she approaches school dances in the same manner as I or my friends did at her age—we used to get dolled up, experiment with make-up and nail polish, and hope to meet boys.
The film, ‘The Mask You Live In,’ establishes clear connections between what one expert called “the pandemic of violence in America” and the repressed anger and hurt of boys and young men, as well as a narrow definition of masculinity that equates “being a man” with physical force, sexual conquest, and economic success.
