This is not just about women and girls. It is also a battle to protect the boys who are lost, who fall through the cracks of our society’s stereotypes and straight into the arms of the communities ready to recruit them, greedy to indoctrinate them with fears of threats to their manhood, their livelihood, their country. While pretending that what threatens these boys is women or immigrants or nonwhite men, the real threat comes from the very forms of rigid “manhood” their so-called saviors are desperate to preserve and promote. Yet we’d rather stay ignorant of this misogynistic hate movement,
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