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Isolation because of social media, family dissolution. men have been masculine for a long time, but they feminists are like, its masculinity causing them to do all that. >> in the feminist community, we talk about how gender roles tend to hold women back, but there is also something about how gender roles tend to hold men back. men are taught from a young age, a very young age, preschool age, that they are supposed to be unemotional, macho, aggressive. because of that, they dont really have that...

Men have been tending to be masculine for a long time. the masculinity causes them to do that. >> l in the feminist community,e talk about how fender roles tend to hold women back. but there is something that needs to be discussed how they hold men back. men are taught from a very young age that they are supposed to be unemotional,re supposed to be macho, supposed to be aggressive. they dont have healthy valves for an outlet of their anger, frustration, things they are experiencing in schools. i...

Treaty allies. its important for the world to see beijing and moscow as it is. >> great segment. fantastic. the left assault on masculinity. you are l not going to miss this debate, coming up.

And media leaders are chipping away atad this idea of masculinity, what it means to be a man. check out this discussion of school shooters on msnbc. >> told to man up. what does that mean? >> no clue. >> show no emotion. >> whats the hardest part about growing up for boys? >> having the pain. >> not being able to express yourself. >> oh, my word. so the problem is masculinity. targeting isnt reserved for left wing cable shows. >> a lot of our problems are cause by old men. no offense, men who ar...

The common thread among most mass shootings. >> boys are the ones committing these crimes. boys are the ones who are pulling the trigger. and i wanted to raise the question, whats going on with the boys? >> reporter: the statistics confirm the concerns. one in four boys are bullied. only 30% tell an adult. boys are four times more likely to be expelled from school than girls. the suicide rate is four times higher for males. and yes, 94% of mass shootings are committed by males. >> most boys are ...

"how to raise a boy." it examines the complicated topics surrounding youth and masculinity. and we just glot this in. nbc news got word from melania trumps office. weve been asking, did the president watch "60 minutes" last night. peter alexander inquired whether or not melania trump had seen it. a spokeswoman for the first lady tells this to nbc news. quote, shes focused on being a mom and is quite even joying spring break at mar-a-lago while working on future projects. well be right back. - le...

That was the shooting in san bernardino, california which was perpetrated by a husband and wife. 14 people died. whats happening to our boys and how can we help colleague steph ruhle sat down with a group of young men to explore the prs pressures of masculinity and why some eventually turn to violence. >> if you want to be man enough, you dont cry. >> you cant show pain. you cant show upset. >> man up, dominate, turn it all off. >> reporter: emotional struggle, a fact of life boys find obvious, ...

>> i have no idea. >> show no emotion. >> reporter: whats the hardest part about growing up for boys? >> hiding the pain. >> yeah, not being able to express yourself. >> kind of makes you feel trapped almost because its like you have nowhere to go. >> reporter: i have sons who dont want to open up to me. why would you do the, im fine, its okay? >> its easier. >> reporter: why is it easier? youre hurting inside. >> succeeding as a guy, youre doing the right thing. were taught at a really young ag...

>> intimacy. is that something that people focus on here? >> no. >> i didnt think that you were going to say that. i thought that it was a u dumb question. >> reporter: this is a delhi-basedoualned author who writes abo love and masculinity. >> when you marry, you marry the entirele family. and my generations previous to it is intimacy is something that i ask what are we talking about, because i provide and look at after you, so what is intimacy. >> and have you answered that question for yourse...

Other. and i think also we need to see this also as toxic masculinity. where you have people trying to in some ways perform their manhood by threatening -- im going to beat up folks in defense of -- and of x, y and z and trumps response is that kind of masculinity at the very top. and one of the things that were experiencing in this me-to movement is a fundament attack on that way of being in the world. so it may have some political kind of currency but at the heart of what we are experiencing t...