Unfortunately, this might be true.
As someone who was accused of racism for merely not allowing someone to utilize my own parking space in an apartment complex, the charge was ridiculous.
However, that doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist.
It is the same with toxic masculinity. When you have a group of people accusing people of something purely out of spite, the accusation can lose meaning but it doesn’t mean it’s no longer that thing.
Migrants fleeing in large quantities is not an invasion.
That doesn’t mean invasions doesn’t exist.
It is easy to misapply Toxic Masculinity as it is meant to be an umbrella term for certain types of sexist bigotry such as homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny… as well as archaic approaches to addressing or dismissing bullying. One does not have to display all of these traits to be exhibiting toxic masculinity, but one or multiple traits.
Personally, generalizing in any degree always leads to a divisive pitfall but rather associating the individual actions, rather than the person, as the guilty party is the key to any real social change.
While there will always be people who stand up to any social change, demonizing them is a futile tactic and is the very tactic that those who oppose social change will use against them. And, as has been proven by history time and time again, when you demonize a group of people, you will always lose.
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