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Young men have been told for 25 years that the very thing that makes them who they are is toxic.

That being a boy who becomes a man is in and of itself, awful, shameful, criminal, hurtful, violent, toxic masculinity is what masculinity has been referred to as.

And so you have little boys in this country who, from their earliest earliest days are taught by mama.

And those mammas have increasingly been told,

don't you unleash a little toxic masculinity monster on society.

So they dressed little Tommy up in a dress and put lipstick on him and gave him fairy princesses to play with.

He told him to play with the girls.

Don't be a boy.

Then they sent him to school.

Because he's a man, a man in waiting.

He wants to run.

He wants to grapple.

You ever notice in the animal kingdom how natural it is for animals to wrestle and grapple.

You notice that from their earliest days?

It's how we learn physical human interaction.

It's how we learn to battle and fight, defend ourselves.

Oh, no, little Tommy, not you.

Not you.

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