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Originally Posted by mdom
"The fact that you think that normal people murder simply because they’re male is disingenuous"
BITCH I SAID TOXIC MASCULINITY AFFECTS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MORE THAN MENTAL ILLNESS DOES I DIDN'T SAY BEING A MAN DOES U FUCKING DENSE MESS
ughh now I'm annoyed!! I no longer consider her a good artist u.u
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The phrase "toxic masculinity" is a trigger word for a lot of people because almost nobody (on any side of any issue) actually understands what it actually means. This results in people becoming instantly emotional. (I don't use "trigger" lightly there. It really is a trigger scenario.)
Far too many people use "toxic masculinity" as code for "men are toxic." I'm not saying you're one of those people (on the contrary, I think you probably DO know that it refers to the unhealthy social pressures on what defines a masculine identity), but it's such a common misappropriation of the term among radical feminists that it's easy for the average layperson to think that's what everyone means by it.
Now, I also have a doubt that your claim is actually correct, but that's primarily because I'm unaware of any statistics that can specifically support a link between men exposed to toxic social upbringings and domestic violence, controlling for mental health issues. I'm not going to discount the possibility entirely -- it's DEFINITELY true that there's a correlation between men who witnessed domestic violence as children and men who commit domestic violence as adults. But there's a reasonable hypothesis to be investigated that toxic social pressure might be a cause of anxiety disorders and stress disorders in men. (I believe it to be likely, but I can't claim it with certainty because I'm also not aware of
that research either.) If this is true, then the results of toxic masculinity
are causative of mental health disorders, which means that mental health disorders are in fact the main source of concern.