Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Language usage always has a political context.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.