[albatruss]

You've got it backwards. Toxic masculinity is exactly the avoidance of vulnerability and emotional openness you praise, not horsing around with your buds.

You don't have to guess on the definition by the way, as academic terms tend to be well explicated.

[freetime2]

> You don't have to guess on the definition by the way, as academic terms tend to be well explicated.

I disagree that the meaning of "toxic masculinity" is as clearly defined as you claim, or that it is even an academic term [1]:

> The term ‘toxic masculinity’ is not an academic term. It has little currency in academic scholarship on men and masculinities, although this may be changing. Common terms in scholarship for dominant forms of masculinity include ‘hegemonic masculinity’, pioneered by influential theorist Raewyn Connell, and simply ‘masculinity’. There is of course academic debate over how to understand these terms.

If you can cite a clear, concise, and universally accepted definition of toxic masculinity, though, I would be interested to read it.

[1] https://xyonline.net/content/toxic-masculinity-primer-and-co...

[albatruss]

I cannot cite a universally accepted definition of anything. That is an impossible standard and I'm sure nothing I say will satisfy you. The only help I can offer you here is to question the neutrality of that link.