"Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful?
It's hard to avoid encountering the term "toxic masculinity" these days. The term "toxic masculinity" points to a particular version of masculinity that is unhealthy for the men and boys who conform to it, and harmful for those around them. "Toxic masculinity" was virtually non-existent in academic writing — including feminist scholarship — up until 2015 or so, other than in a handful of texts on men's health and wellbeing. Whether it uses the term "toxic masculinity" or not, any criticism of the ugly things some men do, or of dominant norms of manhood, will provoke defensive and hostile reactions among some men. Dominant gender norms may be "toxic" for men, but they also provide a range of unearned privileges and inform some men's harmful behaviour towards women.
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