WARNING, THIS IS A VERY LONG READ

I used to be one of those maga idiots who worshipped Trump for anything he said. I idiotically thought that Trump's would bring benefit to all of the young men out there without any critical thought. Funy thing is, THAT I LIVED IN CANADA, NOT THE NATION OF CALORIES (Canada has an obesity problem too). However, realizing that Trump has little intention to help young men at and benefit the rich and powerful, I decided to look into the left and found that so many of my values match. The left has promoted equality + equity, freedom of political expression, street safety, and better social safety nets than the right. These are all of my values.

However, the shift of young men voting right is not because all young men became alt-right sexists, but rather one reason is the claims that mascunlinity was sterotypically violent and discriminatory.

1: The claims that mascunlinity were stereotypically discriminatory and violent were never really true. Being a jerk actually makes you a beta weakling.

https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/what-is-toxic-masculinity

The first red flag is that this article was written by a woman. Now, It may seem sexist that I'm calling out this article for being written by a woman, but if we are to discuss masculinity, it should be men who are talking about it. Similar to if women were discussing femininity, they were

"from mental and physical toughness to sexism and homophobia, have a negative and often dangerous impact on the world."

I'll give it to her, physical toughness is not obligated to be masculine. However, calling mental toughness a form of toxic masculinity is a bit of a stretch. Being mentally tough is actually a form of positive masculinity that empowers men. The homophobia and sexism were never parts of stereotypical mascunlinity in the first place. If at all, it made you more fragile and less masculine. The article goes on to explain about how all forms of violence were steotypically considered "masculine". Hey, wasn't diffusing fights, bringing peace, and resolving conflicts without violence just considered sterotypically "masculinine" in the first place?

To place the cherry on top, there's another section that covers womens issues with statistics without any stats that covers men's issues. This further plays the sterotype of "men are struggling, women most affected".

The feminists and the back then were talking about toxic mascunlity and talking about all the things.

young men don't like content like this ---> the people who wrote this are feminists ---> mass majority of feminists are left leaning ---> ---> feminists = leftists/democrats ---> young men don't like the feminists, which makes them dislike the left.

Solution: Instead of shitting on toxic mascunlinity, why not talk about positive mascunlinity and mostly talk about how it will benefit men and talk about how it will benefit women as well. There, you can appeal to both the male and female demogrpaphic.