But do you know when they stop? When they meet resistance. People take guns into public places and unload them into innocent people. "We do not want to teach boys that bullies should never be resisted, and we do not want to teach bullies that they can get away with it." This has happened far too much, and more and more we see the results of it. But with all of that in mind, I'd still give my son the same advice. Not to mention as a pastor I'd never hear the end of it from people. And the results that follow would be suspension, if not expulsion, and maybe a few lawsuits. The instructions that John gives his son are the same I would give mine. This chapter opens with a story about John's son as a first grader who gets pushed down by a bully. "Our culture has turned against the masculine essence, aiming to cut it off early." But this part of us is also dangerous, and because of that the world works to control it. The reason for this is that our strength is the part of us that gives life. We have all been wounded, and each wound has been a well placed shot at our strength. One doctor tells the authors that he discourages survivors from going to the police, because the police will rape them.We live in a world where masculinity is constantly under attack. Reports of mass rapes are staggering, such as the estimated 90% of women in parts of Liberia during the civil war. In Darfur, the authors report, rape was a strategic weapon for Sudanese-sponsored militias, and women who sought medical help afterward were punished, to prevent negative publicity. That statistic doesn’t cover honor rapes, in which rape is used to systematically disgrace and terrorize women. This is one of an estimated 5,000-6,000 honor killings a year, the authors write. Afterward, some men covered her body in the street. Though honor killings are outlawed in Iraq, the authors report that security forces watched a thousand men participate in Du’a’s killing, ripping off her skirt, kicking her “as if she were a soccer ball,” and dropping stones and concrete bricks onto her. The authors tell the story of Du’a Aswad, a seventeen-year-old Kurdish girl living in Iraq, who spent a night with a Sunni Arab boy.
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