Impugning

The word Impugning is a “Transitive Verb”. The definition of Impugning according to Merriam-Webster is ” to assail by words or arguments oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity”. I found this word in the reading “The Boys are Not All Right” by Michael Ian Black in this he talk about man’s emotions and masculinity. That they are not allowed to show their emotions to the world. For example, ” I see him, 16 years old, swallowing his frustration, burying his worry, stomping up the stairs without telling us what’s wrong, and I want to show him what it looks like to be vulnerable and open but I can’t. Because I was a boy once, too”. This show that man are promoting masculinity too because if they show emotion they have to face a lot hate towards their personality. The word Impugning tells us that if u show society your soft side they’ll attack u from their words.