• @Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    1010 months ago

    ‘Toxic masculinity’ is referring specifically to masculinity that is toxic. It’s not referring to masculinity as a whole as toxic.

    • xigoi
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      110 months ago

      What does non-toxic masculinity look like then?

    • @MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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      010 months ago

      Pushes in glasses “uuum ackshually that’s not what it means”

      Yeah no shit, tell that to the people on social media where the majority of popular discord takes place. And pretending that the meaning of the two isn’t obfuscated is disingenuous. At the end of the day it’s all antipositivists theory garbage that reads more like a political treatise than academic study.

      • @hakase@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        Exactly. Feminist terminology like “toxic masculinity” and “patriarchy” has been very carefully chosen to be misandrist enough to result in the intended widespread popular demonization of men that we’ve seen over the past few decades, while also giving feminists enough deniability to gaslight with “that’s not what the terms ackchually mean though”.

        The misandry is a feature, not a bug.