On a day when there was another school shooting, this time by a boy in Maryland, I couldn’t get a song out of my head.

It’s climbing the charts, and it’s the perfect antidote to “toxic masculinity.”

Yes, the title, "Drunk Girl," and the first verses sound rather ominous.  It’s about a girl on a drinking binge, bouncing from bar to bar, headed for trouble.

Then comes the chorus:

Take a drunk girl home

Let her sleep all alone

Leave her keys on the counter, your number by the phone

Pick up her life she threw on the floor

Leave the hall lights on walk out and lock the door

That's how she knows the difference between a boy and man

Take a drunk girl home

The song was co-written by Chris Janson and two other fathers. “We wrote it from a father’s perspective,” Mr. Janson told Billboard. “If our daughters ever got into that situation.... We would hope that a young man ... would take great care of them with great respect, do the right thing....”

That's not to suggest that women require sheltering by men from men. But for this father of daughters, the message of respect in a fraught moment is worth amplifying.

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