What is toxic masculinity to you? What does it entail generally? What can be considered as toxic masculinity? How has it affected your everyday life? What can men and women do to wash away their internalized toxic masculinity… how to improve?
I have so much to say… but I get so tired of saying the same argument over and over (not in a negative way I’m stating I’ve had many debates about this in the past)
What do you guys think about heavily traditional places? Like there are some places in the world where no matter who you are you have to wear some sort of covering and appeal to that tradition… I mean, it is kinda toxic but I like that there is that tradition in those places. I don’t think that we should all have strict rules like that everywhere…
But posing a questions- Is us challenging gender/cultural norms stripping away actual cultures and traditions? Is that a good thing? Should we just all wear whatever we want everywhere and ignore tradition?
I’m wording this weird. I don’t really have any thoughts on this rn besides if I was to go somewhere I think it’d be cool to appeal to that tradition/honor it. But that should be a choice I think. So I think that we should keep those places, but people should be free to come and go as they please. Ex: They aren’t forced to stay in a certain area/country.
Ah, I’d read a joke about that. Basically, people who like feminine stuff are gay. And what’s the most feminine thing in this world? WOMEN! So, most men are gay!
Not going to lie, I really thought toxic masculinity was a myth. I find it difficult to call masculinity, toxic because you’re conflating masculinity with something negative which sounds like discouraging men for being masculine.
Don’t get me wrong, I do agree that there are men that are toxic but it’s hard for me to say toxic masculinity, I don’t know. But yeah, it’s ridiculous that there are ridiculous expectations for men such as being the breadwinner.
I recently watched an Cinema Therapy episode about mean girls where they at the start talked about the difference between toxic masculinity and toxic femininity but they have an entire episode about toxic masculinity using aragorn as an example of non-toxic masculinity.
Cinema Therapy is (for those who not know) an channel where a filmmaker and a licensed therapist use movies to talk about common therapeutic subjects used in movies so people can get a better understanding of them.