how did it get so bad lol

the top post rn complains about people saying the male suicide rate is so high because of toxic masculinity, and then describes... toxic maculinity

wild

  • Jeff_Benzos [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    i guarantee you whatever we change the name to the reactionaries will still rail against it

    This is exactly it. We could all agree tomorrow to call it "self-destructive masculinity" tomorrow and The Discourse wouldn't get any better. Anti-feminist knee jerk reactions are to feminist concepts, not the specific choice of words

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      "self-destructive male expectations" could be used when not talking about outwardly-directed toxicity, and it would have either not confused the specific poster in that thread, or not given them the ammunition to intentionally confuse the readers of that thread.

      I mean, I would much rather just widely teach feminist theory to kids but that's a lot less likely to happen soon

      And like, I have heard the clarification of what toxic masculinity really means like, two times out of the thousands of times I have heard it used.