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"It’s hard to avoid encountering the term “toxic masculinity” these days.
It has been linked to Australian soldiers’ war crimes in Afghanistan, the
Morrison government’s low credibility with women in the lead-up to this year’s
election – and further afield, the rise of Donald Trump and the Capitol riots.
It is regularly applied to pop-culture characters as diverse as the
hypersensitive dinosaur nerd Ross Gellar from
Friends, the alcoholic
adulterer
Don Draper in Mad Men, and the violent, repressed Nate in
Euphoria, who regularly tells his girlfriend, “If anyone ever tried to hurt
you, I’d kill them.”
The term “toxic masculinity” was obscure in the 1990s and early 2000s. But
since around 2015, it has become pervasive in discussions of men and gender.
So what does it mean?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
