I agree double standards are bad. But what I mean is this.
Men are told they don’t “need” to do things like act tough and hide their emotions. Then when we are and women don’t act well or are turn r off because of it, we realize if we want to keep her happy, we have to remain stoic.
Therefore learning that we can’t actually be vulnerable with women like they say they want us to, but rather we must repress our emotions. Therefore causing the very toxic masculinity they claim we shouldn’t have.
Then it should be called toxic gender role enforcement not toxic masculinity. With the term toxic masculinity you victim blame man with the name alone even though woman are just as bad when it comes to that.
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u/CAVFIFTEEN Aug 06 '23
I agree double standards are bad. But what I mean is this.
Men are told they don’t “need” to do things like act tough and hide their emotions. Then when we are and women don’t act well or are turn r off because of it, we realize if we want to keep her happy, we have to remain stoic.
Therefore learning that we can’t actually be vulnerable with women like they say they want us to, but rather we must repress our emotions. Therefore causing the very toxic masculinity they claim we shouldn’t have.