toxic masculinity

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Toxic hockey culture starts young

Peak Web March 3, 2023

By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor In the last few years, it’s become progressively harder to call myself a hockey fan. My love for the game hasn’t faltered. If anything, it’s becoming a more significant part of my life. Checking statistics of National Hockey League (NHL) players went from something I did for fun to something I made a career out of. Deep down, I’ve always known that hockey culture wasn’t as flawless as the rose-tinted glass it was portrayed through. I heard the distressing stories my brothers would tell about what goes on in the locker room, behind closed doors.…

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Scaling the wall of toxic masculinity and rediscovering sports as an adult

Features September 28, 2020

By Gurpreet Kambo, Peak Associate I’m just about at the top of an indoor rock climbing wall. There’s a red and black machine a couple feet above my head, and it has a bungee-cord-like thing hooked into the harness at…

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What a positive masculinity looks like

Peak Web February 2, 2019

By: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor  Gillette recently put out a commercial about their old slogan,“the best a man can get.” The ad talks about how there’s a lot of problems specific to men and traditional masculinity, and how they have…

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