Well, there's both. But I'd argue men have more need to have toxic masculinity rejected on a wider social level. Especially in countries where masculine culture has become harmful to men's mental health.
A lot of toxic masculinity hurts men significantly. It trains them to have poor - or no - emotional regulation, a key life skill as an adult. They're often victims of body shaming, but don't have the supports women tend to because of toxic masculinity.
Men often ignore their own health due to "real men don't go to the doctor" type harmful toxic views.
Yes, we have toxic femininity to deal with and that needs to be addressed, too.
But personally, men's health is so often overlooked. And this sort of toxicity harms men more than anything, and harms others through that.
Men deserve care, attention, and to have their mental health defended. And unfortunately due to toxic masculinity, many are too unaware or afraid to fight against it for their own good.
Women made progress, and now I think it's time to help the men reclaim their health and identity, too. To help them realize they can be who they genuinely are without being ridiculed for being something other than the toxic male stereotype.
Men's health is important. And toxic masculinity endangers it.
Because you will never be heard unless you have the microphone and the feminist have been given the microphone by our masters that own the media.
Because society is focused at the moment on the bad sides of masculinity and it is trying to give women and minorities the spotlights saying guys are the reason for the bad development the world has taken.
Besides that "toxic masculinity" is more prevalent when you live under the premise that western society is patriarchal and you´re focused on them than yourself.
Like a guy that shows rather toxic behavior is emotionless, uncontrollable, aggressive and violent, while a woman that shows rather toxic behavior is over-emotional, tries to control everything and is over-reacting because she´s taking everything to heart or is belittling a guy by being over-caring.
Another answer could be that "toxic masculinity" and "toxic feminity" have different results because "toxic masculinity" is often more clearly visible and there are more clear signs of it while "toxic feminity" doesn´t need to lead visible damage.
Because people would rather think men are to blame for all our problems.
Toxic femininity is very alive and rampant. It's in the dating world. In women's friendships. In their attitudes and the way they carry themselves. Toxic femininity mirrors arrogance, restlessness, self-centeredness, narcissism, and poor values. And it pollutes not just other women but men's world as well.
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They do all the bitching... it's that simple. We don't have groups of neon red, green, and purple-headed men shouting in the streets. Yeah, there are exceptions to the rule but the rule isn't made by exceptions.
We have a bunch of blue-pilled beta orbiter dudes that will simp hard for any chick there is as well. Like try and speak up for men's rights and it's more likely one of those guys will come out at you with the attack.
For the most part, most of us dudes get told to STFU and settle down right from the start while the highly emotional effeminate seems to get a social pass on 9/10ths of the behaviors listed up there in that picture of what a toxic male is.
What is toxic femininity?
We don't judge each other for being too feminine or to masculine. Being too emotional or not emotional enough. We are not afraid of people thinking we are gay or something.
If a guy tries to talk about his emotions with friends they will most likely just laugh at him because it is not normal to them. They will probably will say that he's gay for trying to talk about his feelings.
That is what toxic masculinity is. Being so scared of losing your masculinity in the eyes of others and destroying yourself by trying to do that.
Toxic femininity for sure exists but what that is to be clear is when a woman shames another woman for not been modest respectable woman.
Same way toxic masculinity is how men shame men for not been men.
Both drive from this sense of sexism we have and bias that we have to conform to be the same. Both feed each other.
If toxic masculinity lowers so will the other because people will lose the ideology of stuck up rules that both must abide by to be a "Real" woman or be a "Real" man.
Isn't it funny how the women who throw around the "toxic masculinity" buzzterm happen to be the very ones to reinforce it?
For example, they claim that it hurts men because men feel pressured not to seek help in order to appear "strong". Yet funny enough they themselves prevent anything speaking up for men's issues to see the light of day.
Or when they claim taht toxic masculinity prevents men from being "vulnerable". Yet funny enough they themselves find men who show their vulnerability weak and unattractive.
The hypocrisy is absolutely beyond measure.
Masculinity is more defined that femininity in my opinion. Men have to wear certain things that are "masculine", but women can wear whatever we want for the most part. So there are as many toxic women as men, but it's just toxic, not exactly toxic based on the strict female behavior roles. Meanwhile men have specific behaviors that are needed to be masculine, more than women for being feminine (in my opinion, probably depends on where you grow up). So men's toxicity usually comes from overdoing it on the traits they are expected to have
A large percentage of “toxic masculinity” is subjective with no real definition. Toxic femininity is even less defined because our culture is dominated by women.. which ironically demonstrate a lot of what “toxic masculinity” originally was referred to. Personally I’ve been verbally abused to almost the point of emasculated by women far more than I ever have by other men. Instead of associating toxic traits with masculine and feminine which only serve to demonize normal traits. How about we just call out bad behavior for what it is- bad behavior.
This is such a weird concept 🤔 to me.
I mean the things you defined as toxic masculine traits are personality traits witch both men and women can have they are NOT gender specific, sure more men have those traits than women but it is not exclusive to us.
Heck my own mother is the worst sore loser i have ever met that is why i will never play card or board games with her and then there is my girlfriend she always restraints her own emotions never showing even a single tear.
So how do we define women that have these so called toxic masculine traits?
Yes, let's discuss it. Bratty, obnoxious behaviour shouldn't be tolerated simply because the one displaying it happens to be a woman.
This clip explains it rather well:
They both go hand in hand.
Toxic feminity is the mirror image of toxic feminity. Wanting women to be hyper feminine and men to be hyper masculine.
If you instead mean the women hating men, thats not normal feminism thats radical feminism.
You know what's most hilarious about that? Think about what toxic femininity is. What is it that girls did to each other all the time that you rarely saw guys do?
Answer: Character assassination, rumor spreading, getting their friends to ostracize whomever it is they dislike.
Now. . . what is it that you're seeing play out across society in spades these days?
Answer: Cancel culture.
What we have today is much more of a toxic femininity problem in society than a toxic masculinity problem.
i think feminazis have done a really great job at deconstructing the male gender and gaslighting the entire society that there's something wrong. this is toxic femininity. and we need to fix that shit asap. we can't let sick psychopaths like amber heard "teach" us how we should behave.
Men generally defend a nation in war. Since the relative military power of communist nations is significantly lower than western capitalist republics, their strategy is to weaken men so that they are afraid to defend their nation from communist invasion. It's pretty simple, those women who speak about toxic masculinity are enemies of their country carrying out a asymmetric warfare against their own people. They are traitors.
These are Western women's times. Men have given it to them by being washed over by the media, entertainment and schools. We let this happen. Like other social trends, it will come to an end. Some upheaval like the coming recession or later cultural collapse will erase this nonsense In the meantime we need to stop being bribed by sex. It will take (!) toxic masculinity to end this trend, which is why they fear it. Like Democrats fearing Trump and DeSantis.
Both terms are equally dumb. We should be able to identify bad behavior in men and women without rushing to ascribe it to some "toxic" expression of gender roles. There are decent people, and there are assholes, any further distinctions are secondary to the fact of assholes existing.
Because the toxic feminists have achieved narrative control, legislative superiority, and have created an environment where saying or even hinting at any of the above can be a termination or criminal offense. Be wary of who you are not allowed to criticize, for that is who truly rules over you.
I wouldn’t Trip out over it Brother.
Let those females be Toxic through Time the male race will decide females aren’t worth it and dudes will stop Fucking females and hanging out with them.
It won’t bother me as Human race going extinct is exactly what we need
The world requires masculinity whether you call it toxic or whatever. It's the toxic masculine men that go fight and defend the freedoms for the very pussies holding the signs to rid the world of toxic masculinity. Here's some toxic testosterone masculinity I'll take that sign and shove it straight up your well happy place is probably what you would call it.
Well women are always taken care of and given more important but men are overlooked. To balance the difference this is being done so. Honestly the whole world is toxic due to standards of society.
Fun fact: the person came up with toxic masculinity was talking about young people, like teens.
We can all agree that teen boys and girls can be pretty toxic due to childish immaturity meeting adult hormones.
Which is why they have parents to work that out of them.
Mature masculinity and femininity are the best!!
It really goes both ways and it would be sexist to say that it don't. Both men and women can be toxic and some share traits that might be more for one or the other but any of these could go either way as well.
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