In the wake of the recent shootings in Parkside High School, actor and comedian Michael Ian Black commented that “Deeper than the gun problem is this: boys are broken."

This is in no small part because that all men grow up steeped in a culture that teaches us to be men in ways that are frankly, toxic.  We live in a society that harms young men and pushes them towards violence and isolation. It's time to talk about the effects that toxic masculinity has on boys and men, and on society as a whole.