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How well is your therapy going? I thought about going because I see the same patterns in myself. The main drawback is that I strongly autoregulate and eventually something triggers me and I get coldly furious. I cut some long-lasting friendships due to this and I'm keeping everyone at a distance.

I would agree that it's connected to masculine cultural tropes. The toxic behavior stemming from it is IMO is a derivate of the mental mess it fuels.