siryouarebeingmocked:

rachel009:

lethal-cuddles:

celticpyro:

I cringe every time I see the term “toxic masculinity” applied to fictional characters.

I cringe when I see the term “toxic masculinity” in general

What are you guys talking about? That term is meant to describe the pressure men are put under to preform in a “manly way” consantly. It’s meant to protect men and give them room to show emotion and not always be so competitive. It must be mis-used because it’s not meant to insult men at all.

It’s used by people with a sexist, distorted idea of what men’s lives are like to avoid using the term “sexism”.

Also, the movement that uses “toxic masculinity” also complains about “mansplaining” when men correct them, and has gone out of it’s way on multiple continents to shut up men and women who want to talk about men’s issues, up to and including breaking the law. It’s also falsely blamed mass murders on “toxic masculinity” – and those groups that want to talk about men’s issues – often before anyone on Earth knew what motivated a shooting. 

In one particular case with Anita Sarkeesian, she did it the afternoon of the shooting. To this day, three years later, no one has ever figured out what motivated Jaylen Fryberg.

Not to mention the Wonder Woman scandal, where a certain theatre wanted a woman-only showing, and many people said “isn’t that sexist? And illegal?” and feminists just called the critics whiny, entitled men. The theatre got in trouble for discrimination, and for some reason feminists didn’t talk about that as much.

Or #MeToo and the Kavanaugh case; any man who said he was worried about being mistaken for a sexual predator – even Henry Cavill – was clearly a sexual predator. Or a paranoid idiot. 

Or how many feminist guides for male allies tell men to sit down, shut up, and do what women tell them. Their only expressed opinions on gender issues should be fed to them by feminist women.

So excuse me if I sideeye when feminists claim they totally want men to express themselves “healthily”.