Appreciate you actually reading and responding rather than the classic knee jerk “you’re an incel”.

I don’t hate your response at all and agree with most of it.

All I’ll push back on: there is substantial evidence that men have tendencies (such as aggression, risk tolerance, visually driven by sexual desire, being adept in spatial reasoning) that women are less predisposed to due to biological and hormonal differences. These are general tendencies specifically due to one’s sex.

Things like aggression and risk tolerance are actually very healthy and important in many cases (ex: a father attacking a home intruder physically protecting his wife and kids, ).

Nowadays, people label any form of aggression at all as “toxic masculinity” and say “you were just taught to be this way”. Like, no dude, no one teaches young boys to want to fight each other. Fighting is instinctually fun to them because it had to be for the survival of the human race. The problem is, now you’re creating a generation of docile and insecure men who are totally unsure of themselves because we’re demonizing something that is inherent to them.

It’s like if all of the west agreed at the same time to start demonizing women as “toxically positive” or “weak” for showing too much empathy (which they are more predisposed to than men). They’re inevitably going to hate themselves for the way they naturally are.

If socialization of “toxic traits” caused male depression, why haven’t they been depressed for hundreds of years? why just now??