Commentary: Why Esquire deserves the flak it's getting for that 'American Boy' cover

I wouldn't mind hearing what a white, American boy has to say about school shootings, toxic masculinity, #MeToo and a divided country.

We're engaged in a long, layered, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes illuminating conversation around sexual harassment, representation, bias, race, power. I want anybody and everybody to join in.

Problem is Esquire found a white, American boy who didn't have much to say about any of the above topics and then devoted a cover story to him.

The cover headline reads: "An American Boy: What it's like to grow up white, middle class, and male in the era of social media,