Jared Yates Sexton and Henry Rollins on Masculinity
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From “boys will be boys” to “men don’t cry,” American culture has strongly ingrained ideas about masculinity, ideas that Jared Yates Sexton believes are deeply damaging to our individual and collective psyches. In The Man They Wanted Me to Be, Sexton traces how norms including emotional repression and physical aggression create “toxic masculinity” and contribute to some of America’s most pressing issues, from gun violence to sexual assault. Henry Rollins, writer and former frontman of Black Flag, joins Sexton for a discussion of the corrosive effects of toxic masculinity on men themselves and on society as a whole, and to lay out the ways that we can free ourselves from its influence.
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Jared Yates Sexton
Jared Yates Sexton is the author of three collections of stories, a novel, The People Are Going To Rise Like The Waters Upon Your ...
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins is an actor, author, DJ, voice-over artist, and TV show host. He is the author of more than 30 books, including Blac...
