Blaming the victims of mass shootings for antagonizing the shooter is never a good look. The reason you get "blasted" online is because the sentiment takes a br

Blaming the victims of mass shootings for antagonizing the shooter is never a good look. The reason you get "blasted" online is because the sentiment takes a broad brush and paints men awfully (ironic considering the "pointing to all men statement"); this fatalistic (and frankly entitled) view that unless men are babied and served to at the exclusion of everyone else they'll turn violent and ruin the party for everyone. If you want to assign systematic (and in some cases personal) blame I'd say look to the voices championing strongest for a back step of social progress for the "sake of men". Just from my own experiences in the southern US (poster child for the "follow an arcane set of rules and defend your "masculinity" and cash out on full ride entitlement") I've seen the systematic undermining of young men's skills and development in favor of baseless dreams of a past (that may have never existed). A handful of journalists taking the piss are nothing compared to the semi-coordinated movement looking to weaponize a vulnerable (by their own making) segment of the population. Sympathy for the lonely, education for the unskilled, exposure for the unsocialized; these are all good ideas to move forward. Just, imo, never fall into the trap of assuming any of this is "natural" and something to be accepted (or even embraced).