It's amazing to me that the article goes on and on about the hardships these women face, and the reasons they get into the gangs, which I'm not denying they do.

Why does it seem to me the article's overall blame is the men? I guess the men got this way because of toxic masculinity and are just in it for the hell of it, not the hardships they faced either?

Here is an idea, start trying to fix the hardships for these men and maybe that just might help some of these women too? Hell even their women almost come right out and explain it:

In a series of jailhouse interviews, Iraheta told The Washington Post she'd been introduced to MS-13 as a child. She denied being a member, but defended the gang.

"They aren't the monsters people think they are," she said. "You don't know their stories. You don't know what's happened to them to make them this way."

While I feel for these people, because most had a horrific childhood, in the end both males and females get drawn to the gangs for the same reasons.

And one reason females get involved?

*"MS-13 is the new bad boy in girls' lives," said Carlos Salvado, a defense attorney who has represented young women accused of gang connections.*

*"*The gang's bad-boy allure can cross cultural lines."