Remarkl
Jul 16, 2024

It would be very helpful to see that three-column chart for femininity so that feminists could agree or not agree that the middle columns should be different from each other.

Yes, our weaknesses are often our strengths taken to excess. That view allows us to define "toxic masculinity" as something called "masculinity" taken to excess. But which "wave" of feminists agrees that there are masculine "strengths" that would not also be strengths if exhibited by a woman? There is a war on gender, and any attempt to extract masculinity from its toxic form must deal with the argument that masculinity and femininity themselves are toxic constructs.

I'm a vive la difference! type of guy, so I like the masculine chart. But I believe that chart is too easy to create without thinking about the complementary one for the female gender.

Remarkl
Remarkl

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