It’s not about ’toxic masculinity’ or ’healthy masculinity,’ it’s about masculinity under patriarchy
▻https://www.feministcurrent.com/2019/12/05/its-not-about-toxic-masculinity-or-healthy-masculinity-its-about-ma
“Toxic masculinity” focuses our attention on the worst behaviors, and certainly those forms of abuse must stop. But our chances of success increase if we can talk honestly about the “normal” training in masculinity that men get in patriarchy: Be competitive, pursue conquest, don’t back down from confrontation, and always be in control of oneself and others.
That training produces not only rape and harassment, but plenty of callous and abusive behaviors that are routine in business, sports, the military, and everyday life.
How to change that understanding of masculinity?