&gt;The grief and antagonism that erupt after every school shooting focus on either a prevailing gun culture or mental health problems, but masculinity is surely an indispensable component.<p>You say you do school shooting and 4chan will tell you &quot;Do it <i>faggot</i>&quot;. If you actually do it 4chan will scream &quot;ABSOLUTE  MAD<i>MAN</i>!&quot;.<p>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. But that denial probably perpetuates the problem.<p>You can often hear from women something like &quot;You can&#x27;t have your manhood enforced by violence or job. Be better human instead.&quot; But that&#x27;s not how identities work. Either you find a way to be a man or accept not being a man. The latter is whole new can of worms.<p>Transgender people suffer from whopping rates of suicide, depression, loneliness and generally feeling insecure. It&#x27;s unfair comparison. But it&#x27;s not really surprising, that men with less of same identity problems are showing similar symptoms to lesser extent.<p>&gt;some scholars think that, just like the black church seems to do for black men, unions could remind more white working-class men to prize not just ‘hard work’ but also solidarity and other values.<p>Here in Nordic countries unions have lately turned into relatively feminine thing. So this is kind of reformulating the idea &quot;be more feminine&quot;. Which is exactly what most men are trying to avoid in the first place.<p>Theoretically some kind of men-only workers union might be cool. But such &quot;patriarchal&quot; constructs are quite demonized these days.