>>106349036>You're falsely conflating standards with emotional abuse and masculinity with whatever simplified, barbaric idea of manliness you've got in your head....No, I'm saying that when you put those elements into practice, you turn the masculinity into toxicity.
That's the entire point of throwing the word "TOXIC" before the word "MASCULINITY" rather than just insulting someone because of masculinity.
Masculine traits:
Strong, confident, capable of providing for his family.
When you twist those traits and make them toxic by taking them to an extreme with poor parenting:
If you're not strong, you're a faggot. You must be so confident, you can't ever ask for help and even going to a therapist is admitting weakness. If your wife is the one with the job while you're stay-at-home dad, you're not actually providing and you've become the woman of the house.
The latter very much exists among some households. The former is masculinity, the latter is toxic masculinity. For some reason, you don't seem to understand when it's pretty clear-cut the difference.
