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No, that's absolutely wrong. Men and women have strongly defined expectations of themselves and of each other. Some are social and cultural. Some are genetic. Many are contradictory - which leads to impossible demands that can't be achieved by either gender.

All of the current models for dealing with this are wrong. Neither liberal feminism and identity politics nor alt-right resentment and nostalgia for an imaginary lost "real" masculinity are healthy solutions to this problem.

Essentially, both approaches are resentment-based rather than reality-based. Some of the resentments are justified, others are rather artificially exaggerated. But I don't think either approach is the last or best word.



What impossible to achieve demands are being made in the definition of toxic masculinity?

For reference, I'm using the definition from Wikipedia[0], since disagreeing on terms is a common problem in discussions like this.

Interestingly, Wikipedia says the term and concept were invented by the men's movement, not resentful feminists.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_masculinity




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