masculinity is in fact fragile and women can easily trash it by merely defecting rather than cooperating in its maintenance, and after decades of casual encouragement to do this at the drop of a hat as if there were no costs involved, only benefits, there isn't much of it left
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general principles suggest, though, that the effect this pervasive pressure will have is to breed resilient masculinity for which women do not have the arm's-reach nuclear killswitch that has historically been their birthright, which is a nightmare scenario of epic proportions
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i actually mean to be addressing masculinity-the-personal-behavior rather than masculinity-the-social-construct; what you're describing is cooperation in maintenance of the latter and defection in maintenance of the former
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