What can Men do to distinguish themselves from toxic masculinity and the violence it inflicts?

[s28]

Overwhelming majority of terrorists are men (probably hazard a guess at 99%)

So it isn't any race or religion which is the main problem maybe it's men's thinking ?

What can we men do to root out this toxic masculinity ?

I would say the media has to play some part in this right ? IF you grow up watching Hollywood or Bollywood rubbish with it's terrible portrayal of men as role models who engage in violence and treat women like commodities to be used and abused it surely has an effect ?

Notable that the latest tragedy is an angry man who takes out his frustration on a load of innocent young girls

I saw a statistic recently suggesting 24% of children in US growing up in 'fatherless' households

What's the betting this latest perp comes from a broken home ?

 

[Robert]

An absent father is often key to the pathology of these guys. Lacking a strong male role model at home, they find narrative in a brutal distortion of Islam, a rigid belief system with the sternest of father figures. I saw a programme about two white English reverts. Both lacking their father. Both in Belmarsh for terror plotting now.

I think a lot of football hooligans and EDL types have the same psychology. No Dad to protect and nurture them as they grow, so they join into a violent gang to feel safe, to feel like men.

 

[Adil_94]

people who commit ideologically based terror are motivated by said ideology very much yes there are other factors that come into play socio-economic factors mental stability but ideology is a big driver in those who commit violence for the IRA or the KKK ISIS or AQ the belief that the best way to serve their cause is through violence is what drives them to action.

Also the broken home thing doesnt ring true on the likes of OBL who was born into a multi billionaire family who became radicalised by extremist scholars at university.

Shahzad Tanvir one of the 7/7 bombers was from a loving middle class family not a broken home. It was him being radicalised into rejecting the values of mainstream society and his family for eternal glory in heaven that made him do the attack.

the same for those professionals who have gone to join ISIS because they feel like they are serving a higher divine cause.

Theres multi tude of reasons why someone becomes a Jihadist or a neo nazi but once they are then the ideology does drive them.