Tag: violent masculinity

We Are the Cause of Our Own Misery

JENNIFER BROWDY DE HERNANDEZ – A couple of weeks ago, when I heard that my 14-year-old son and his friend had been playing with the other boy’s air-soft pistols by shooting each other at close range, I saw red. “But it just stings like a bee-sting, Mom,” my son protested. “It just leaves a welt. Why are you getting so upset?” At the time, I wasn’t sure why I was getting so upset — after all, these were only toy guns…