Our focus should not be on 'toxic masculinity', but on why men and boys feel so lost

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fast-forward to the 21st century, and it is the male of the species who is now routinely diagnosed with ‘toxic masculinity’, another uniquely gendered problem attributed to ‘too much testosterone’.

Intriguingly, we have only discovered lately — thanks to popular culture — that this evolutionary ‘flaw’ is not only responsible for uncontrollable anger, violence and an irresistible urge to dominate and ‘mansplain’, but it also makes men laughably stupid when it comes to domestic chores, multitasking and parenting (as adverts and rom-coms show us every night online and on TV).

So the story of young Jamie may be a parable for our times, insofar as it exposes the deplorable online recruiting sergeants (like the infamously misogynist Tate brothers), but the Tates and their ilk are catering for a much more worrying underlying — and burgeoning — male resentment, and its alarming ramifications.

So, demonising young men, telling male teenagers they are part of the ‘Patriarchy’ (guilty of their forefathers’ ‘sins’) and crushing their dreams in an anti-masculine ecosystem is not only unfair, it is profoundly dangerous because it nurtures the resentment that the ancient Greeks called the wellspring of war.'