| Actually one should provide exactly that, because otherwise the concept can be used to justify bullying. "I don't like what you're doing" can become "That's toxic male behaviour" - which immediately politicises and amplifies something that may be a trivial personal/domestic disagreement. As for toxic femininity - it seems it cannot exist. See e.g. https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Toxic_femininity ...which explicitly states that toxic femininity doesn't exist as a political phenomenon, and where toxic behaviour does happen (hardly ever...) it's the fault of patriarchy. In this view all toxic gender behaviour is caused by masculinity. The line between that and "Masculine behaviour is inherently toxic (unless controlled and directed by women)" is a very thin one. These definitions concentrate on tribal/political stereotyping, not on the behaviours themselves. The idea that some behaviours are toxic - and it doesn't matter who is doing them - seems to be a conceptual leap too far in these contexts. |