I think the idea is more that innately masculine men and boys socially inspire/pressure each other to harmful (to them and others, AKA toxic) heights of masculinity.
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I actually never said anything to that effect
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No, you didn't! And I'd be astonished if you did given what I know of you!
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I was responding to Kale saying that innately masculine boys inspire each other to badness. I think they monitor each other & hold each other responsible
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I don't think the idea is that masculinity is inherently more toxic than femininity, or even innately bad at all. It's when taken to extremes, usually encouraged to those extremes by social pressure, that it's bad. Eg. bravery is good, too far it's foolishness.
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Neither masculinity nor femininity is bad per se, but to suggest that they don't have any aspects which can be harmful seems silly to me.
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Can't we just say that some negative traits are more common among one sex? This represents the reality of overlapping distributions of traits.
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We can, but I don't think it gets at the real cause as effectively as narrowing it down to, for example, boys trying to out alpha male eachother. It doesn't get to a solution, either, whereas trying to educate people about how social interactions impact them just might help.
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We can talk about intrasexual competition, sure. But we'd need to recognise all the implications of that. We don't need to go to original sin - it's in your very nature as a man/woman - to address negative behaviour. We've done that via Christianity for centuries.
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