We need need immediate advancement in the scholarship of masculinity and a new popular discourse around it. Including new terminology that captures and evokes the most damaging aspects of toxic masculinity
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People can only be radicalized when their identity is destabilized and they are terrified. Radicalization is a response to fear
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Terms like "emotional labor" have been incredibly important for society to develop a widely agreed upon yet nuanced understanding of all sorts of previously invisible (to men) relationship phenomena
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We need that but for toxic masculinity (itself a generic and non-evocative blanket term with a somewhat accusatory tone to which is never going to go over well with men)
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Do NOT talk to me about Jordan B Peterson, he's less dangerous than the manospnere but also clearly encouraging the same old toxic responsibility / male self restraint complex
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Men need to understand how to perceive their own zero-sum status gameshttps://twitter.com/turtlekiosk/status/976320375733805057 …
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Men need to understand the difference between vulnerability and weaponized vulnerabilityhttps://twitter.com/turtlekiosk/status/986651782502809602 …
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Men need to understand how to not base their ego on their current emotional statehttps://twitter.com/turtlekiosk/status/978923458125008897 …
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We need common language for all of these and more so that even men who don't see a therapist can easily diagnose and problematize their own behavior
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we especially need ways to express the complicated relationship between competition, entitlement, and misogyny http://humaniterations.net/2017/05/23/authoritarians-and-ideology-of-love/ …
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