vulnerable

While we was reading the boys are not all right in class on Tuesday. I find a new word “vulnerable” I didn’t know what “vulnerable” mean but when I look it up on dictionary.com it give me a definition of “capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon”. I find this word in paragraph 6 “Too many boys are trapped in the same suffocating, outdated model of masculinity, where manhood is measured in strength, where there is no way to be vulnerable without being emasculated, where manliness is about having power over others”. Now I understand what the word mean. They use the word vulnerable in the article to explain that boys are really hurt.