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Sometimes we need to have a little “toxic” masculinity

The Ordinary Man
5 min readOct 16, 2024

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One thing that I hate about modern society is this push to demonise men and masculinity. What should have been done is holding men more accountable. Men shouldn’t be demonised for being a man, but men who do wrong should be held responsible.

We’ve gotten to a point where being masculine is seen as wrong to many people and we’re seeing more femboys coming out of the youth. A femboy is a man who’s been told his entire life that being masculine is wrong so he doesn’t radiate any masculinity and has become this metrosexual sassy creature.

Some women will see this as a win, that is until they speak to them and realise they aren’t attracted to them. They want masculinity but they’ve screamed that they hated it their entire lives. You could say that they don’t even know what masculinity is so they have no right to complain about it.

There is nothing wrong with not being traditionally masculine, some masculine traits needed to go away, but not all of them. There is a lot of value to masculinity that people miss until they’re faced with a situation where they need it.

Women will champion this but they won’t date it.

Why do we need masculinity?

Masculinity is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles associated with men and boys. Masculinity can be theoretically understood as socially…

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