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All the old deficiencies and blind spots of male socialization are still in circulation — the same mass failure to teach boys relational skills and emotional intelligence, the same rigid masculinity norms and social prohibitions that push them away from intimacy and emotionality. But in screen-addicted, culture war-torn America, we have also added new ones.
Ruth Whippman, op-ed, "Boys and Men Get Everything
Except The Thing That's Most Worth Having"
Whippman goes on to write:
Under patriarchy, boys and men get everything, except the thing that’s most worth having: human connection.
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