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Wait, I'm not sure what you're exactly trying to say. The things you've listed:

> boys are aggressive, horrible to women, insensitive

are parts of toxic masculinity, i.e. they are toxic and they are part of the social image of masculinity. Why is it wrong to say that they are toxic, and that boys shouldn't ascribe to those "goals"? The best thing we can do is tell them "society negatively associates these negative traits with masculinity, but you don't have to be like that to be a man".



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