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A piece on how mysogyny is behind anti-gay taunts and the poisonous nature of policing the binary for boys: http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/who-are-you-calling-gay/

"“While they didn’t necessarily ever experience the concrete privilege their fathers and grandfathers experienced, they have the sense that to be a man means something and is incredibly important. These boys don’t know how to be that something. Their pathway to masculinity is unclear. To not be a man is to not be fully human and that’s terrifying.”