Blatchford: It never occurred to me that traditional masculinity could be harmful, as the American Psychological Association recently proclaimed, or toxic, as movements such as #MeToo and ads like the controversial Gillette commercial released this week suggest.
The commercial shows two sorts of boys and men — those behaving badly (by bullying, resorting to physical violence and sexist behaviour) and those behaving well (by intervening, by being gentle, by calling out other men).
Well, my late father was of course many things, but what he was mostly was a preposterously gentle man.
He was truly of his generation, the so-called “Greatest Generation,” in that he subsumed his personal needs pretty much his whole life for those of family, friends, country. He’d disagree with that description, of course, because it never felt like sacrifice to him and he had tremendous capacity for joy.
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