Why Masculinity Is Not the Enemy.
For years now, the word masculinity has been dragged into the dock and tried in the court of public opinion. Accused of being outdated, oppressive—even dangerous. The sentence? Silence it. Soften it. Strip it down and rebrand it. But masculinity is not the enemy. The real enemy is how society has failed to guide boys into becoming men. Across homes, classrooms, and media, we have abandoned boys to figure it out for themselves. We have ridiculed fathers, removed role models, and replaced mentorship with mockery. And too many men—fathers included—have failed to step up, either absent entirely or present in body but not in spirit. We say boys will be boys, then blame them when no one showed them how to become men. Undisciplined boys become lost men. And lost men far too often become statistics—in prison, in violence, or in graves far too early. Yet instead of addressing these failures, we attack masculinity itself. If masculinity were a race or religion, such treatment would b...