What It’s Like to Date Women, According to Men I Know | Female author admits that not every problem is caused by "toxic masculinity" and that toxic femininity exists too

EnvironmentalWar4627 · 2021-10-01T01:28:29+00:00

Masculinity and femininity aren't toxic. Trying to push these ideas that they are is just childish gender war BS. This article reads exactly like a feminist hit piece on men but for women.

It's sham journalism, petty, and embarrassing.

63daddy · 2021-10-01T02:17:32+00:00

Masculinity is the characteristics of males. Femininity is the characteristics of females. Having the characteristics of your sex isn’t toxic. What is toxic is calling masculinity or femininity toxic.

McFeely_Smackup · 2021-10-01T23:11:02+00:00

She sighed. “Yeah, everyone tells me that.” Then she stared at him, like she was waiting for him to do better. They broke up a few weeks later. She said he wasn’t ready for a mature relationship. This woman had been through some of her own tough relationships. She’d been dumped by rich, successful CEO types who used her for sex but never quite felt she was good enough to enter their social world.

I can't help but notice that the author, even as she's pretending to acknowledge how toxic women can be, still managed to put blame on men for this woman's behavior.

Can it be that her "rich, successful CEO types" dumped her because she was...exactly what the author described her to be...nah, it was just that they 'used her for sex'. She manages to be both sex negative and a toxic femininity apologist in one sentence. She appears to be trying, trying pretty hard, to be eyes open objective about toxic female behavior, but still let's "it's a mans fault" slip in.

liberalbutnotcrazy · 2021-10-01T08:52:47+00:00

Perfect example of female logic. Is talking about a friend whose girlfriend of nearly a year had been talking to her “abusive” ex for their entire relationship daily, without informing him she was in another relationship…

To his credit, my friend didn’t get upset. He tried to figure out what the ex-boyfriend was providing that he wasn’t.

So the “correct” response is find out what he was doing wrong, not what she was doing wrong.

Exhibit A why I no longer date

RockmanXX · 2021-10-01T11:32:26+00:00

"Toxic Masculinity" is literally ANYTHING that Feminists don't like about Men. Instead of trying to police men, they need to police themselves.

TheStumblingWolf · 2021-10-01T12:31:01+00:00

If both genders can be toxic, it's almost like it's more about who you are as a person and there's no reason to gender it...

tommytimbertoes · 2021-10-01T18:49:49+00:00

Thanks Captain Obvious!

Comments