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Jun 1, 2023 - 4:54 PM
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WillemAfo
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"Femininity" is typically used as a demure term. "Masculinity" can describe more powerful or domineering traits. I think the reason "toxic" was so easy to affix itself to the word "masculinity" is because it is the "masculine" men in society who cripple governments with bad policies and governing and start wars with one another. There can be toxic women, no doubt. We've probably all known a few (or more) in our own lives.
I've never in my life heard anyone use the term "white masculinity" until I logged onto FSM one day. I'm not even sure I could define what it could possibly mean.
I can't see the original post but if it's a more pedantic conversation I think "heteronormative masculinity" or "hegemonic masculinity" may fit whatever the person was trying to talk about.
Recently I had been listening to an interview with Brad Fiedel about his score for "The Terminator" and he was mentioning how the film's producer Gale Anne Hurd was being kind of an a**hole to him in their initial meeting.
I looked it up and apparently it's a reputation she has, and an article interviewed her where she said something like she has a reputation as being a bitch and she's proud of it because men would never be called that.
While I get the semantics of her point, she's missing the big picture, like "toxic masculinity" does, that any gender or ethnicity in a position of power can exhibit toxic behaviors. For her, while "bitch" is a gendered insult, plenty of male executives in this industry are called "assholes" because their behaviors are exactly that.
Granted, there are historical rationales that "toxic masculinity" is tapping into, but that's coming from the nuance of academic discourse. In the hands of the average citizen, that term tends to get wielded very poorly.
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