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If you understood what toxic masculinity is you'd understand it entirely focuses on behaviour, and how those behaviours build male identity.
by tomlock 7y ago
If you understood what toxic masculinity is you'd understand it entirely focuses on behaviour, and how those behaviours build male identity.
- brigandish 7y agoIf only I understood! Please, supply a single example of non-toxic masculinity that doesn't require your redefinition of commonly understood words and maybe I'll be able to understand better. You can hardly blame me for misunderstanding something you fail so badly at elucidating.
- tomlock 7y agoToxic masculinity refers to traditional cultural masculine norms that can be harmful to men, women, and society overall; this concept of toxic masculinity is not intended to demonize men or male attributes, but rather to emphasize the harmful effects of conformity to certain traditional masculine ideal behaviors such as dominance, self-reliance, and competition. Wikipedia
- brigandish 7y agoAnd the example of masculinity that is not toxic is…?
- tomlock 7y agoThe behaviour I mentioned above, which runs counter to the "self-reliance" mentioned in an example in the definition.