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toxic masculinity.

 What is toxic masculinity? Truth be told? Nothing. It's just a made-up word to dehumanize boys and men and blame them for everything. Why do we need to blame men for every single thing that is wrong in the world?


They, the feminists, love to believe that men have power and that all men are responsible for everything. Which is a huge steaming pile of bullshit. 


what purpose does it serve to blame men for everything? What do we hope to achieve from this? If we're going to want to fix actual problems going on, then we need to look to what is actually causing them and not blame it on men. Men are not the problem. 


This is also something I found from a site on "examples of toxic masculinity."

https://www.aurorand.org.uk/news/top-10-toxic-masculinity-behaviours


"Top 10 Toxic Masculinity behaviors



  • Being stoic
  • Men are constantly given the message that they must be self-reliant, independent, physically tough etc. Men are told that to be this way will make them successful in terms of business, society, and finding a partner. Being vulnerable will cause men to be ridiculed.  "

  • Being promiscuous
  • Typically, men will be praised by other men for sexual conquests. There is a well-known double standard regarding perceptions of male versus female promiscuity with men being praised by their peers and called ‘studs’ while rejecting women who have multiple partners and branding them ‘sluts’.

  • Championing heterosexuality as the unalterable norm
  • Many men are programmed to react negatively to the concept of homosexuality as it is a sign of deviating from the traditional male stereotype. Through popular rhetoric and from an early age when boys are learning about gender roles, men are taught that to be homosexual is to be less masculine.

  • Being violent
  • Statistically, men commit significantly more violent crime than women. There are numerous reasons for this, but there are clear links between male instigated violence and the need men have to use aggression and violence to prove their masculinity and bolster confidence in their masculine identity. 

  • Being dominant
  • To be preoccupied with power and dominance to a point that it causes harm to others, such as verbal, physical and online bullying. One study found that over a quarter of men thought they should have the final word in relationships, over a third of men believed that they had the right to know where their female partner was at all times.

  • Sexual aggression towards women
  • Men who conform to toxic masculinity standards are more likely to make sexual comments or sexist jokes to women, commit sexual harassment, accept rape myths and behave as if they are entitled to women’s bodies.

  • Not displaying emotion
  • Emotion is treated as being a feminine characteristic. Stifling emotion is seen as true manliness. From childhood, males are shamed to conform with the standard that to show emotion is weak and feminine.  

  • Not being a feminist ally
  • It is unsurprising that the overly masculine would reject men who identify as the allies of feminists. Research shows that men engaging in feminist activism are the targets of harassment by men who prescribe to toxic masculinity as it is perceived as feminine and non-conformist to toxic masculinity.

  • Risk-taking
  • Connected to male dominance, toxic masculinity encourages taking risks to demonstrate dominance, men who buy into this are more likely to take extreme measures such as perpetrate violence, drive dangerously, gamble, abuse drugs.

  • Not engaging in household chores and caregiving
  • Again, housework and childrearing are seen as feminine qualities. Being asked to do a feminine deemed task such as housework, or worse, a man being criticised by a woman for not cleaning appropriately is often interpreted as an emasculating assault and provokes a masculine overcompensation response.


Being stoic is not a "toxic" masculinity. Being self-reliant, independent, and physically strong are actually good things and a positive trait of masculinity. We need to be self-reliant. We need to handle things ourselves as we do and be independent. There's nothing wrong with it. 


being promiscuous, as if women are never promiscuous. Also, it's not a toxic trait although it's not a healthy trait either. 


The majority of men are going to be heterosexual, that's just the fact. It's not toxic to be straight, it's just the way it is; it's how we keep our species surviving; we need a man and a woman to procreate. None of this is to say that being gay or bisexual is wrong, it's not. LGBT make up less than 5%. 


Being violent is a serious problem, but it's also in women as well. We're not going to fix the problems by dehumanizing men by saying, "Oh they're violent ergo, toxic masculinity." to say that men are the majority of violence than women is false. women make up just as same as men in being violent. 


Being dominant can be a good trait, depending on the whole dominance thing. it's not as black and white as you think. For instance; leadership, being in control and taking charge. 


Sexual aggression is a serious problem, but it can also apply to women as well as they themselves do it too. Let's not pretend women are angels. They're not.


Not displaying emotion is a problem, but because of how society expects men to shut up and put up with anything that happens to them. Not to mention that any time a man expresses emotions, he gets mocked, shut down, ridiculed, and more. What we should be doing is taking men seriously. 


not being a feminist is not a toxic thing. No one should have to be a feminist; feminism is a toxic thing where we're brainwashing girls into fearing and hating boys and boys into self-hatred and catering to women and anytime a boy was abused or even sexually assaulted, he should be silent. That is not ok. 


risk-taking is actually a very good and useful thing; without taking risks, we wouldn't have gotten the things we have today; modern medicine, clean water, electricity, and a lot more. 


Not engaging in household chores is more laziness than toxic masculinity. Besides, there are women who don't do chores themselves. 


We don't take into consideration that there are men who make up for the majority of homelessness, suicide rate, workplace deaths, war, loss of custody of their kids, and more. Men who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or rape are ignored or blamed. Even when it's done by other men, the response is, "It's by other men." 


We don't take into consideration that men don't have power, they don't have "privilege" and they are not the fault of the problems we face. We ignore the fatherlessness in boys' lives, which results in a higher crime rate and higher suicide rate. We ignore boys who are sexually assaulted or abused by their own mothers even. 


We ignore female predators, female abusers, female rapists, and even female murderers, and blame it all on men by saying, "She was the victim" or "A man made her do it." we don't hold her accountable.


So why is it that we dehumanize men by saying these things and ignoring female criminals? Narrative. It doesn't fit their narrative. They want to pretend that women cannot possibly do evil things and that only men commit evil.

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