“The truth is that in addition to not protecting women, we are failing boys: Failing to raise them to believe they can be men without inflicting pain on others, failing to teach them that they are not entitled to women’s sexual attention and failing to allow them an outlet for understandable human fear and foibles that will not label them 'weak' or unworthy.”
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