Toxic Masculinity

The latest slogan to appear all over social media is Toxic Masculinity.

A new name for an old complaint.

Men are bad.

Gee whiz. Never heard of that one before have we?

And like women are totally harmless, right?

The term was coined by a psychologist in the '80s.

The concept? Been around for about 200,000 years.

The term is another 2.0 version of ancient endless terms signifying the same old ancient complaints.

The term, currently used, stereotypes the entire male sexual gender.

So, weren't stereotypes bad? Wasn't tarring a whole group with the same brush a bad thing?

Oh... only when we say so.

If We wanted to stoop so low, we could use SJW arguments that the term is offensive, by SJW definitions.

Toxic masculinity as usual is another poorly defined slogan thrown around social media without any discussion of what it means. Sound familiar?

Without any definition accompanying its use, it's impossible therefore to tell what people mean when they use it. But let's have a guess.

Firstly, it feels pejorative, morally charged, superior, prejudiced, presumptuous, stereotyped, can we say negative?

Is this kind of negative terminology not in direct contradiction to the shoutings of SJWs?

Shouldn't the term be banned from speech, by the standards of the constantly offended hoi polloi?

The appeal of the term Toxic attached to the enemies of SJW, manly men, must be too much for planet-savers to bear. No definition required.

Masculinity is fine by itself. But the toxic version sounds... harmful. Bad. Must need to be treated as a problem. Removed or eradicated from society.

Papers scanned via scholarly writing sites do offer a range of definitions.

Academics qualify the term, as reference to the bad side of masculinity, especially We assume when it offends women or weak men, and society tolerates it. So, bad masculine behaviour is seen as Normalised. Society has accepted the bad side of masculinity. And now we planet-savers must campaign to destroy it.

And what do we do about Toxic Femininity?

Toxic Social Media?

Toxic SJWs?

Toxic Man-haters?

Toxic Causes?

Toxic Protesting?

Nothing.

Ironically, Misandrists accuse men of Misogyny.

How about re-focussing on Toxic Humanity? Or how about plain old rudeness?