for many of these guys it’s not becoming nonviolent that blows their minds about themselves; it’s learning that they’ve been fed a line about what they’re supposed to act like and who they’re supposed to be, a line about what masculinity means and what being a man means. How as men they can acknowledge anger, rage, and authority. But not empathy, kindness, love, fear, pain, sadness, care, nurture or any of those other “traits” that are deemed feminine. And that they’ve been manipulated by forces larger than themselves, shaped by a world they had never thought about in this way, which is
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