Well here is another term hurting young men in general. Turn his masculinity into fear of being a real man .
“Toxic masculinity” refers to certain behaviours and attitudes commonly associated with men that are perceived as being harmful, such as repressing emotion and acting in an aggressive manner.
The Food For Men Foundation, part of an initiative which aims to encourage an international conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century, we hear descriptions of toxic masculinity as a form of manhood that’s “defined by violence, sex, status and aggression”. Yes Men make bad choices , but it doesn’t make them toxic.
One of the ways that masculinity sometimes manifests is through bad behaviour which ultimately ends in violence, and that violence either is enacted on men themselves, or on other people. Men need better role models.
We think it’s a process of micro-aggressions that escalate to a point where violence is enacted on the world. Some people are just plain toxic. We have our good angles and we have our bad ones.Labels can be less helpful than direct communication when calling out detrimental behaviour.
We’re all in this boat together. We’ve got to make it work.
FFMF