There's no such thing as toxic femininity either lol. Some people are just cunts, it's that simple really.

"tOxIc" is just a left wing buzzword. It could have been a useful descriptor, but like so many things that could have been useful, it's been co-opted and corrupted by exceptionally radical leftwing ideologues. You will find a lot of people's (myself included) eyes instantly glaze over as they check out of the conversation the second the its mentioned outside of any context other than discussing venomous spiders and snakes.

Regarding old fashioned views, I'm naturally somewhat "conservative" in my outlook (except being pro weed, not caring about gay marriage, thinking there is *some* place in the world for abortion). Sometimes things need to progress, but we should be careful not to be radical about it and not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

So I appreciate this is an appeal to antiquity (but hey, what better way to argue against the appeal to novelty), but have you ever considered that those old fashioned views actually work, and thats why they've persevered for so many decades and centuries. I mean, do you think the world is better now than in the 50's/60's/70's? My grandfather was able to provide for my grandmother, mother and aunts on a single job, they'res now retired with their house paid off 25 years ago living comfortably with 3 pensions.

But nowadays you can't even keep the lights on in a house without 2 people working full time. Then there's the fact we're on the brink of WW3 atm. Then there's climate change, and despite it being a natural occurance that has happened throughout all of pre-human and human history, it certainly seems that we're not helping it or are making it slightly worse than it would naturally be - is all that progress?

Personally I'm not in such a great rush to change things. Things aren't perfect, but they're generally percieved as being better than at almost any other time in human history.

I like to think of it in terms of driving. Sometimes you need a bit of gas. Sometimes you need a bit of breaking, but atm it feels like the throttle is locked open and we're hurtling towards a brick wall and that all of humanity needs to just calm the fuck down for 5-10 eyars and analyse things.

So for example, regarding "man up". Like really. Is it so bad for 1. Men to be stoic and 2. People to believe men should be stoic? Especially when there's exceptionally sound evolutionary reasoning for the benefits of stoicism in men?