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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually it is used by moms with the super energetic rough and tumble type boys who get dirty a lot and play sports a lot.  They assume everyone is like them.

We are not like them.  My son is socially anxious, quiet, timid, and non-athletic.  So are lots of boys.  To me, "boymom" is the mom equivalent of toxic masculinity.  [/quote]

So, super energetic rough and tumble boys who like sports are engaging in toxic masculinity?[/quote]

Of course some are.

- Locker room talk
- trash talk
- hazing
- cultural history of “jocks” bullying non-athletic kids

I can list many more toxic things that stem from the culture of male athletics.  
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Most aspects of male athletics are not negative. Some locker talk can be negative but mostly not. Same with “trash talk.”

I don’t know about a cultural history of jocks bullying non-athletes other than what’s in the movies but it’s rarely a thing now.

Hazing? It’s bad when it happens and it’s more rare now.

Taking the 5% of bad and applying it to the 95% of fine penalizes boys for nothing. [/quote]

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