BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University professor Dr. Amy Dellinger Page was a featured panelist on NPR’s 1A podcast “Boys to Men: Masculinity and the Next Mass Shooting” Wednesday, Feb. 28. The discussion explored what it means to be a man in a variety of ways.

Page is a professor in and chair of Appalachian’s Department of Sociology. She teaches courses such as “The Sociological Perspective,” “Social Problems in American Society,” “Constructions of Gender” and “Sexual Deviance and Violence” at the university.

Also making up the panel were Michael Thompson, clinical psychologist and co-author of “Raising Cain,” and James Hasson, a third-year law student at the University of Virginia School of Law and former Army captain and Afghanistan veteran.

Early in the show’s podcast, Page explains how toxic masculinity “defines boys and men in very limited ways and doesn’t allow them to express their full range of human emotions and characteristics.”

Boys To Men: Masculinity And The Next Mass Shooting

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If it seems there is a pattern in the perpetrators of America’s mass shootings … there is. Since the Columbine High School massacre, most of them have been white males who are 30 years old or younger.

Why is that?

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About Appalachian State University

As a premier public institution, Appalachian State University prepares students to lead purposeful lives. App State is one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina System, with a national reputation for innovative teaching and opening access to a high-quality, affordable education for all. The university enrolls more than 21,000 students, has a low student-to-faculty ratio and offers more than 150 undergraduate and 80 graduate majors at its Boone and Hickory campuses and through App State Online. Learn more at https://www.appstate.edu.

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