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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Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot
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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Replying to @jenphalian @jefflowrey and
Word. You're exactly right. The answer to the rhetorical "Why do you assume all masculinity is toxic? We can talk of rotten vegetables without assuming all vegetables are rotten." Is, because sometimes the word vegetables appears without the word rotten in front of it.
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Replying to @StevenBrust @jenphalian and
"toxic masculinity" as a phrase seems to be more reflexive use of a specific negative to tag the Outgroup than an attempt to delineate a specific bad subgroup "we must deal with the treacherous english" "i mean hey back off non-treacherous englishmen are ok"
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Replying to @eigenrobot @StevenBrust and
yeah, honestly since the first time i encountered it i felt like i knew exactly what it was talking about and that it obviously didn't describe all masculinity, but polemic use has not been kind to it
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Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot and
Suddenly I feel like eating something, shooting something and leaving.
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look jeff lowrey i love and value commas therefore i would never wish to cheapen them by overuse
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