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I will keep saying this:
Socioeconomically disadvantaged young dudes are angry.
Instead of broadly shaming them for that, relate to that anger, temper it, show them how to use it in a controlled manner, and point it toward something useful, constructive.
Give them a rules-based, defined, productive outlet for it.
If you just tell them to bottle it up... they will eventually explode, and cause collateral damage.
How sad is it that a goofily angry man on the TV is a better parent than anon's parents?
Well, it doesn't matter how sad it is, because most parents these days are working too many jobs for not enough money, to even possibly be decent parents.
Thats just reality.
... You wanna beat the fascists at their game of weaponizing male insecurity and angst?
Provide a better version of channeling that insecurity and angst: Give them a framework for thinking and acting that they can channel the anger and energy into genuienly useful and productive forms.
Actually show them a positive, socially beneficial form of masculinity, that gives them their own identity, instead of a cultic group identity.
Some even say Star Trek TNG characters were their role models because it were the first adults actually acting as adults they were exposed to.
I mean, beyond Mr. Rogers, yeah I absolutely can see that.