‘Toxic Masculinity’ What Does It Mean, Where Did It Come From – And Is the Term Useful or Harmful

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• Author:: Michael Flood
• Full Title:: ‘Toxic Masculinity’: What Does It Mean, Where Did It Come From – And Is the Term Useful or Harmful?
• Category:: 🗞️Articles
• Document Tags:: ✍️ Sin machirulos hay paraiso. Una charla heterofriendly sobre management
• URL:: https://livewire.thewire.in/gender-and-sexuality/toxic-masculinity-what-does-it-mean-where-did-it-come-from-and-is-the-term-useful-or-harmful/
• Finished date:: 2023-01-15

Highlights

• Masculinity” refers to the roles, behaviours and attributes seen as appropriate for boys and men in a given society. In short, masculinity refers to society’s expectations of males. (View Highlight)
• a particular version of masculinity that is unhealthy for the men and boys who conform to it, and harmful for those around them. (View Highlight)
• violence, dominance, emotional illiteracy, sexual entitlement, and hostility to femininity. (View Highlight)
• The term first emerged within the mythopoetic (New Age) men’s movement of the 1980s. (View Highlight)
• Toxic masculinity” was virtually non-existent in academic writing – including feminist scholarship – up until 2015 (View Highlight)
• Though the term is now associated with a feminist critique of the sexist norms of manhood, that’s not where it started. (View Highlight)
• It steers us away from biologically essentialist or determinist perspectives that suggest the bad behaviour of men is inevitable: “boys will be boys”. (View Highlight)
• It points (rightly) to the fact that stereotypical masculine norms shape men’s health, as well as their treatment of other people. (View Highlight)
• The term might also draw attention to male disadvantage and neglect male privilege. Dominant gender norms may be “toxic” for men, but they also provide a range of unearned privileges (workplace expectations of leadership (View Highlight)