"Toxic masculinity" was a framework originally formed for violent prisoners. Feminists campaign to have it applied to little boys in school.

InnerSwineHound · 2026-04-23T06:32:59+00:00

There is no toxic masculinity, only unloved men

Deleted_-420_points · 2026-04-23T13:01:16+00:00

It's also important to realize that the term "toxic masculinity" is pseudoscience (aka junk science) because it was created by a biased survey of a few college students who were asked questions about what they think is bad about masculinity. This is the kind of stuff that seriously undermines academia, especially in psychology.

Psychology was the first academic field to become female dominant. Shortly after women became a significant majority of psychology academics, they pushed out a new and controversial version of the DSM, the DSM V (5). The DSM V states that "traditional masculinity" is bad for health and society. They used academia to push a false narrative that TRADITIONAL masculinity is toxic...

The amount of harm done by activist psychology academics is huge.

librae_vongehl · 2026-04-23T06:11:34+00:00

Toxic Masculinity describes a feminist.

The left can't meme because they are always guilty of what they accuse.

Far-Walrus1570 · 2026-04-23T12:06:54+00:00

Theyre telling us "toxic masculinity" but what they really mean is that "masculinity is toxic"

DeddestNash · 2026-04-23T12:13:19+00:00

It is so wrong to label a young boy as having "toxic masculinity"...

What happened to schools just teaching kids to be good people? So backwards

fraktalmau5 · 2026-04-23T14:31:03+00:00

I always thought it was coined by the men’s mythopoetic movement. Who believed old ways of masculinity, such as coming of age rituals, had been replaced by a type of masculinity that hurt men.

anomalocarus · 2026-04-23T05:53:22+00:00

Source?

brainquantum · 2026-04-23T15:49:05+00:00

Here it is an interesting read about the situation of young men who are incarcerated and the consequences of the incarceration on their psychological development: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10323979/

itsakon · 2026-04-23T10:59:08+00:00

It’s a perfect language trick too.

If someone says “toxic water”, we know what water is and that toxic is a deviation from it.

But “masculine” is subjective, just a vibe. Plus we didn’t even use “masculinity” very often because from the 80s to the mid 00s, the previous generation had a culture of rejecting labels.

So adding “toxic” to the recently underused word “masculinity” makes it sound like description of the vibe itself. A compound noun. And they know that.

In an all male prison system, “masculinity” it would be as common as water. Whatever it means. But given the feminist takeover of psychology, I don’t buy it.

“Masculine Toxicity” would be the egalitarian term that recognizes anyone can be toxic.

By their own standard, propaganda is toxic femininity.

Title	"Toxic masculinity" was a framework originally formed for violent prisoners. Feminists campaign to have it applied to little boys in school.
Author	Argentarius1
Upvotes	125
Comments	12
Date	April 23, 2026 5:27 AM UTC (3 months ago)
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