https://phys.org/news/2026-01-men-subscribe-toxic-masculinity-traits.html

"One surprising finding was that strongly identifying with one's gender was not a strong sign of toxicity. Even among men whose attitudes matched patterns linked to toxic masculinity, being a man was only slightly more important to their sense of identity than it was for other men. The researchers therefore note that strongly identifying as "manly" does not automatically make someone toxic."

The hilarious point is that they need to seriously make research to come to these kinds of conclusions.

They've spent so much time attacking men, masculinity in all its forms, that they've become completely trapped in their own beliefs. I mean, masculinity is almost always perceived or described negatively today, toxic by default, and the big game is to correct men so they're no longer that way. So at this point, they conduct new studies and arrive at the "surprising" conclusion that, well, actually, the majority of men, even the so-called very masculine ones, don't actually have anything toxic in their behavior.