Is Toxic Masculinity a Real Thing?

 

Our planned series on garbage dumps of Sheffield has been pushed to the back burner. After all, we're pretty sure the garbage isn't going anywhere any time soon.

Our country is failing. It's failing its adult citizens...and it's certainly failing its children. Parents? Many are total failures. Some churches had rather produce a Widespread Panic concert than a worship service. Some even go out of their way to protect child predators (you know who you are).

Semantics? Our culture seems to be doing a bang up job of introducing new words and phrases to the general public. How about "toxic masculinity?" Does it exist?

School shooters? Any mass shooters? They are almost always white and almost always male.

Pictured is a person named Hale who has just murdered six individuals in Nashville. Three children are dead. Three adults are dead. We're referring to the shooter as simply Hale. Born male and living female - at least that's what's being currently reported.

We have no idea what Hale may have done to change his sex to female. Did it involve more than name and clothing? What we are 100% sure of is that, unless Hale had some major surgery or drug treatment, he/she/it was still producing large amounts of testosterone at the age of 28.

News outlets are referring to Hale as female, but have stated they don't know what kind of transition was involved. A good guess is that Hale had some serious hormone issues somewhere that contributed to this tragedy.

White. Male. Toxic. Why?

Why can't we as a society do better? That being said, we do know some who are white, male, and actually even heroes in our sick world. We don't say enough about them.

Please, go out of your way to help a lost child today. We don't need anymore mass murderers.