I think the efforts to focus on issues of ‘Mental Health’ pay only lip service to this point. We live in a culture which relies on male culture to be about learning to traumatize others and learning to tolerate trauma, while at the same time decrying it as toxic male culture. Males are rightly confused these days, and the lack of adequate social services combined with a country filled with guns that continues to promote media of all sorts that celebrates violence as long as it’s ‘good violence’, is a recipe for this kind of tragedy. Focusing on the individual shooters as being the problem isn’t the answer. It is a systemic problem I believe.
I think the efforts to focus on issues of ‘Mental Health’ pay only lip service to this point. We live in a culture which relies on male culture to be about learning to traumatize others and learning to tolerate trauma, while at the same time decrying it as toxic male culture. Males are rightly confused these days, and the lack of adequate social services combined with a country filled with guns that continues to promote media of all sorts that celebrates violence as long as it’s ‘good violence’, is a recipe for this kind of tragedy. Focusing on the individual shooters as being the problem isn’t the answer. It is a systemic problem I believe.