Metadata
- Author:: wikipedia.org
- Full Title:: Toxic Masculinity
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_masculinity
- Finished date:: 2023-01-21
Highlights
- Toxic masculinity is a set of certain male behaviors associated with harm to society and men themselves (View Highlight)
- The concept was originally used by authors associated with the mythopoetic men’s movement, such as Shepherd Bliss (View Highlight)
- Note: Recall I read somewhere that it started meaning the opposite
- According to social learning theory, teaching boys to suppress vulnerable emotions, as in the saying “big boys don’t cry”, is a significant part of gender socialization in Western society.[16][17 (View Highlight)
- new American Psychological Association guidelines for warning about harms associated with “traditional masculinity ideology (View Highlight)
- positive traits traditionally associated with masculinity such as “courage, leadership, protectiveness”.[35] (View Highlight)