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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Replying to @eigenrobot
nightmare scenarios of epic proportions are probably Good Actually yeah
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They make good books (looking at the laundry files here)
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Counter-thought: is all masculinity toxic? In the manner of the definitional difference between manliness and masculinity?
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No, masculinity is great. The toxic label gets overused and misapplied a lot.
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Then why is the loss of a nuclear kil switch for masculinity a nightmare of epic proportions? (Even if nightmares of that scale are good things)
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because having no brakes is not a good recipe for avoiding toxicity
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