>I fully support the premise, but it clearly ignores the reality. A man has to first be convinced that the environment around him will not reject him for crying

>I fully support the premise, but it clearly ignores the reality. A man has to first be convinced that the environment around him will not reject him for crying, before expecting him to be vulnerable in such an unfamiliar way. It's irritating to read recommendations for people to effectively martyr themselves in the sake of progress. >People talk about toxic masculinity as though it is a problem created only by men. "Toxic masculinity" is an unfortunately named term that leads to a lot of people talking past eachother since what the term means academically, and what it means colloqually/what it implies are fairly different. I think the issue is intractable enough to justify doing away with the term entirely and eventually coming up with a euphemism that means the same thing.