It's Time to Talk About What It Means to Be a Man in the U.S.

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'It's time to have a difficult conversation about manhood in the United States.

Young boys and men in this country are not okay, and we are all paying the price for it. Whether through mass shootings, high rates of suicide, sexual assault, and attacks against women, hate crimes, or even the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2020, some men are expressing their anger through violence and turning to despair and self-harm.

In our schools, we can incorporate programs in which boys and girls discuss and engage in discussions of what healthy, fair relationships between all of us look like. These can look like Futures Without Violence's "Coaching Boys into Men" or Equimundo's "Many Ways of Being" and many more. At home and in politics, we can support non-transferable paid parental leave for all parents, and provide tools that can help parents encourage critical thinking and honest conversations about what boys and young men see online. In our broader culture, we can hold tech platforms accountable, joining efforts by Ultraviolet and others to enforce online community standards for gaming and social media that stop promoting harassment, hate speech and misogyny.'