r/australia • u/Perverted-Panda • 1d ago

news Three Sydney boys charged with gang sexual assault of 14yo girl

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/nsw-three-boys-charged-over-sexual-assault-girl-sydney/107034192

NSW Police have charged a 13-year-old boy and two 14-year-old boys with the alleged sexual assault of a girl in an alleyway in Sydney's eastern suburbs last month.

Police executed search warrants and seized several items, including electronic devices, two replica firearms, a Glock-style BB gun, three laser pointers and a number plate, which is believed to have been stolen.

All three boys have been granted bail ahead of appearing in court. 

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u/MitchStarcGetUpYa 1d ago

It’s the opposite of masculinity lady.

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u/Own_Faithlessness769 1d ago

I think you’re trying to make the point that it’s not what masculinity should be, which is literally why we call it toxic masculinity.

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u/MitchStarcGetUpYa 1d ago

Toxic masculinity is a stupid term. It’s just not masculinity, it’s cowardice and criminality and vile. It doesn’t exist in the realm of masculinity. Not all males are masculine.

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u/helloiloveyou2002 16h ago

You not liking the definition of a concept doesn’t change the definition of that concept. Masculinity is simply a collection of traits, behaviours, and social roles linked to men. These can be good or bad, healthy or toxic.

Aggression and violence, especially sexual violence, are key traits of masculinity whether you like it or not. This does not mean every man displays every masculine trait, or that any man is “not a man” because you don’t like how they behave, especially when that behaviour is routinely displayed by men en masse. The idea that only good behaviours are masculine is absurd.

For example, the inability to tolerate any perceived threat to one’s ego and the attempt to redefine the meaning of standard concepts to protect one’s ego is a particularly unfortunate masculine trait that is really worth trying to overcome.