text: Hard to miss the rhetorical delight of many writers@theGlobe (abetted by a cadre of academe "progressives" at masculinity-is-toxic.edu) in fanning the flames of 'male dread. The n-word is used mainly as metonymy in Huckleberry Finn (=black slave); the classic is now “toxic” for some because of its 1 unfortunate use as metaphor (= inferior human). The same in reverse is the case with the way the m-word is deployed by 2 many feminists: powerful men are “garbage”; all men are powerful, by definition. Ergo… 
  It's imperative to take down "predators." Not so to suggest, even semi-equivocally, that “rejecting masculinity” is key to being "fully human." You rarely read anything in lib. press that takes women to task for their part in the "semiotics" at play in the ways men negotiate "the spaces between archaic ideals and modern reality." It's true that the Globe employs Maggie Wente, who pleads for balance in otherwise rancorous "conversatìons" but she’s equivalent of NYT  patsy, David Brooks.