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Originally Posted by Alf

So murder is illegal and abortion is not, you're absolutely correct. So would it make you a little bit angry if a advert selling women's products claimed that abortion is murder.

Yep. But if you are saying the term toxic masculinity is the same as say masculinity is toxic... you are wrong. Here, let me help you out since you don't want to do the research yourself

The phrase is derived from studies that focus on violent behavior perpetrated by men, and—this is key—is designed to describe not masculinity itself, but a form of gendered behavior that results when expectations of “what it means to be a man” go wrong. The Good Men Project defines it this way:

Toxic masculinity is a narrow and repressive description of manhood, designating manhood as defined by violence, sex, status and aggression. It’s the cultural ideal of manliness, where strength is everything while emotions are a weakness; where sex and brutality are yardsticks by which men are measured, while supposedly “feminine” traits—which can range from emotional vulnerability to simply not being hypersexual—are the means by which your status as “man” can be taken away.