Christina SommersVerified account

So the APA wants us to believe that masculinity, which somehow made it through 300,000 years of evolution unscathed, is inherently bad for the human race. So much for science I suppose

The new scientists want us to wash our hands before surgery?~ we doing just fine with our dirty hand surgeries al the wayback into the earliest recorded history~ So much for science i suppose. Male toxicity isonly being addressed now b/c the ppl oppressed by it finally have voice

I mean this dude is talking about masculinity like it's just some intangible essence that spontaneously popped out of the eather somewhere around 300,000 years ago, so despite the voice oppressed people have now, he can't hear them or you from whatever planet he's on.

Masculinity and oppression don’t go hand in hand, regardless of how hard you try to paint it that way

Almost like "masculinity," and "toxic masculinity," are two related, yet entirely seperate concepts.

Ugh! The social sciences are a mess

I mean this is actually a pretty good example of something coming out of social science. Sommers just falsely implies the study references masculinity on the whole, instead of the part of "traditional masculinity" that involves suppressing ones emotions.

I thought it was common sense at this point that suppressing your own emotions unnecessarily is bad for you. Not a stretch to look at our culture's fetishization of the stony faced action hero as the pinnacle of masculinity, and see the issue when boys try to become that.

Sure this isn't really relevant but this discussion reminds me of The Friends where Rachel was dating a character played by Bruce Willis. Rachel wanted him to open up and share his emotions and once he did he couldn't stop sharing & crying. That was the end of their relationship.

Not masculinity as a whole. Traditional masculinity.

It’s somewhat confusing to me that a lot of folks who virtue signal “rationality” are among the first to discount respected experts when the experts come to a conclusion that they don’t like.

Fetishizing rationality and logic is just another way for them to establish a worldview in which they should be at the top

How does one go about "fetishizing" rationality and logic? This is like suggesting LeBron James fetishizes his dexterity and agility with a basketball.

Dear God. It's the suppression of masculinity that is the problem that causes men to be confused, directionless and emotionally unstable. What they call "traditional masculinity" I'd call "having your masculinity taken away and not replaced with anything". THAT stunts emotions.

What do you think they are talking about when they say toxic/traditional masculinity? Because it says right there in the tweet they're talking about the encouragement of young boys to suppress their emotions. Do you think this should continue then? What about male suicide rates?

?? I'm saying that boys are taught to suppress their emotions and suppressing their masculinity is part of that. This is a fundamental reason for men feeling lost and aimless which often leads to suicide. Men aren't to blame for this situation.