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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would define it as men who are insecure about their own masculinity so they overcompensate by acting in what they feel is a stereotypical masculine way bullying men they feel are inferior and demeaning and not treating women as equals.  This has nothing to do with how men fall on a spectrum of typical "manly" jobs, behavior or style preferences.[/quote]

And this is something that fathers and older brothers pass down to their sons and that boys copy. I see my DD’s elementary school-aged male classmates picking up on language and attitudes from older boys, which clearly comes from even older boys and their parents. The constant need for men to compare themselves to each other and then try to rise up in the pecking order is a distinctly male thing. Women compare but then try to change themselves to reflect who they want to be like. Men compare and then try to kill/go faster than/beat/outearn/outspend whoever they’re comparing themselves to.

The boys in DD’s class can’t even walk down the hallway without making it into a competition, trash talking, announcing the results, and then insulting whoever didn’t win. Not being able to go through a single moment of the day without worrying about your competition is at the root toxic masculinity. The non-toxic men I know are either naturally at the very top of the pecking order or have the maturity and quiet confidence to decide that they don’t want to play the game and have sidestepped it to do things on their own terms. They’re few and far between.

Everyone else is engaged in a d—k measuring contest. [/quote]

Better that than smirking at each other, rolling eyes, belittling, telling other girls how ugly they are, and doing everything they can get away with to be unspeakably cruel without the teacher noticing. I will take the boys and their healthy competition over what the girls are doing.[/quote]

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