Alex WellersteinVerified account

This commercial is fascinating. What I find most stunning though is that every time I try to write out my thoughts on it, and toxic masculinity, I end up just hitting cancel. I'm a "grown-ass man," as a kid working in CVS once told me — why do I recoil from talking about it?https://twitter.com/Gillette/status/1084850521196900352 …

It's not really that I fear anger. It's because it's too personal, I think, as a heterosexual, cis, white male who has loathed and feared toxic masculinity for longer than I've had a name for it, and yet who can see how he has also been implicated in it.

2018 was a very busy, somewhat stressful year for me. I didn't really get done everything I intended to. But for whatever reason the Kavanaugh hearings hit me the hardest, just dropped me into a deep funk for weeks.

Just the idea that this kind of asshole, the kind I've tried to avoid my whole life, was going to get away with it yet again. And what that says about where we are. Or I am. I know it's just one thing among many, but for whatever reason, it hit me so hard.