“What I learned from the boys I work with is that what ‘girly and gay’ means is all the things we associate with being human: to be sensitive, to be attuned to emotions, to care about relationships, to express your sadness when you feel sad, to express your happiness when you feel happy, to get excited. It literally is linked to everything we associate with humans. And then to be a man is to not be that. The consequence of that is our culture.”

“Toxic masculinity does not just make it difficult to be a man,” Way says. “It’s premised on an idea that says if you’re human, you’re not a man. That’s the premise of our entire society.”
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