Agent Steel wrote:A lot of people on social media are throwing around this phrase "toxic masculinity".
What does it mean?
To me it sounds like most of what they are describing as "toxic masculinity" is in fact just regular masculinity.
It seems to be some kind of assault against men.
Yea, it's the new buzz phrase since it seems like "rape culture" has died off in common parlance.
What tends to happen with these phrases is that academia comes up with them, and then regular people that don't actually know what these phrases mean start using them, and throwing them around.
My best understanding of what this phrase means is basically male behavior/traits that re-enforce a patriarchal culture. Since patriarchy is a bad thing. Anything that re-enforces it is toxic.
That's what I think the phrase is supposed to mean.
This however, opens a giant can of worms, because to discuss this topic deeper, you have to get into questions people are very uncomfortable talking about (or simply don't want to talk about). For example, the nature of males and females (Biology). The concept of social constructs (Nurture), etc. etc. etc. etc. Then it all becomes a giant shit fest of people yelling at each other, and no one actually discussing anything.
I can think of 11780 reasons Trump shouldn't be president ever again.