Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you believe that toxic masculinity is a real thing, what are your thoughts on how to address it? Besides raising boys better what can we do? How do you confront it when it presents itself in your life?
The current world affairs are sad and supportive of mental health disorders. Gen Z males are addicted to nicotine from a USB, can’t stop fapping, and have broken moral codes. We’re better off with masculine masculinity than emasculated losers
Anonymous wrote:I still feel there is value in educating girls to recognize and avoid men who display the telltale signs of toxic masculinity.
Nevertheless, the onus is clearly on men to change/alter/correct their behaviors. Western culture defines specific characteristics to fit the patriarchal ideal masculine construct. The socialization of masculine ideals starts in boys’ at a young age and defines ideal masculinity as related to toughness, stoicism, heterosexism, self-sufficient attitudes and lack of emotional sensitivity and of connectedness. Boys learn to be men from the men in their lives, from their own experiences navigating our social norms, and from the large social and cultural context. Boys live under intensified pressure to display so-called gender-appropriate behaviors according to an anachronistic ideal male code.
Looking at the development of aggression throughout childhood, we know that not only do aggressive behaviors can emerge at an early age, they also tend to persist over time, without early prevention intervention. The socialization of the male characteristics mentioned above also onsets at an early age making it a prime time-period for prevention intervention.
What specific parenting techniques can we turn employ, to thwart toxic masculinity?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This thread is stupid.
Headache inducing-stupid.
Anonymous wrote:If you believe that toxic masculinity is a real thing, what are your thoughts on how to address it? Besides raising boys better what can we do? How do you confront it when it presents itself in your life?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
This isn’t toxic masculinity. Boys actually aren’t girls. I know that’s shocking.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
Anonymous wrote:This thread is stupid.
Anonymous wrote:The real root of this problem is male-only sports teams. These need to go away.
Anonymous wrote:Boys need to be raised to be more sensitive.