The Hard, Adrenaline-Soaked Truth about "Toxic Masculinity" 5th

“Stodgy” in paragraph 15 most directly means

• heartfelt and compassionate

• poisonous and debilitating

• striking and glamorous

• tiresome and outdated

• gritty and virile

The author argues toxic masculinity should be addressed by teaching young men to

• look to history for examples of nontoxic manliness

• run in the streets with bulls without pulling their tails

• emulate knights and defend helpless maidens

• condemn their own manliness by attending campus panels

• define their manhood via aggression and violence

The author’s attitude toward academic approaches to addressing toxic masculinity could best be described as

• threatening

• dismissive

• critical

• incredulous

• deferential

The author says, “This is hard for people who avoid reality to comprehend” (para. 17) to suggest all the following EXCEPT

• academia is out of touch with reality and the author is in tune with reality

• academia thinks masculinity is about talk and the author thinks it is about action

• academia is deliberately harming and the author is trying to help it

• academia is about denying reality and manliness is about being immersed in reality

• academia does not understand masculinity and the author does

The list of campus initiatives to discuss masculinity with students in paragraphs 10-13 is intended to suggest that

• condemnation of manliness is widespread on college campuses

• college culture at large is interested in better understanding manliness

• men engage in hegemonic violence to uphold systems of power

• sexual assault and worse are not problems on college campuses

• discussing toxic masculinity can address the problem effectively

The first sentence of paragraph 7 (“Never mind . . . code”) is an example of

• concession

• rebuttal

• appeal to pathos

• claim of policy

• warrant

The structure of the first sentence of paragraph 14 (“Certainly . . . problem”) would be best described as

• The structure of the first sentence of paragraph 14 (“Certainly . . . problem”) would be best described as

• appeal to pathos followed by appeal to logos

• straw man followed by bandwagon appeal

• concession followed by rebuttal

• synecdoche followed by metonymy