&gt; Male violence happens probably partially because of testosterone. But cultural factors is significant too. Nobody questions your masculinity after such horrid act, probably out of respect to the victims. It seems somehow disgraceful to be killed by a boy.<p>They don&#x27;t question your masculinity because it&#x27;s not applicable. They say that you are evil instead, because it&#x27;s bad thing to do. Questioning your masculinity happens if you do something effeminate, and gunning down people is not that.<p>I guess what you&#x27;re trying to say is that killing people <i>should</i> be considered emasculating. I think it&#x27;s more damning to be called an evil scum-bag than to be called a &quot;faggot&quot;, though.<p>Masculinity[1] has both positive and negative traits associated with it. We aren&#x27;t taught to be masculine even in destructive ways. That&#x27;s also why we don&#x27;t emasculate people who are masculine in destructive ways -- because it&#x27;s still <i>masculine</i>, but not in a commendable way. You see the difference? &quot;Masculinity&quot; does not mean, and is not taught to be, synonymous with &quot;good&quot;. At least not these days.<p>Our concepts of what is good and bad, commendable and terrible, is not one-dimensional and solely attributed to things like gender conformance. Calling someone through-and-through evil and despicable is more isolating and condemning than calling them a pansy. You won&#x27;t appreciably reduce mass shootings by verbally stripping mass murderers of their manhood, rather than just calling them evil. Sorry.<p>[1] In the sense of traits and actions which are associated more with men.