Isaiah McCall
1 min readJun 1, 2021

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Great point Sabine, and I agree to an extent.

However, it's important to remember that there's toxic masculinity as well as femininity; just as there's the positive elements for each.*

A deep-rooted hatred for men, as we see amongst some groups of feminists, is certainly toxic femininity; as I would say is reducing societies problems to the patriarchy.

You can only attack someone when you reduce them to a generality, not an individual. I'd say that's very common today.

I do agree that becoming jaded to these words is a step in the right direction. But for many of these men its the first time they've been called a racist, or a sexist or privileged. And often it's misattributed or not entirely true, as we see in cancel culture. These terms have lost their power.** The problem of man-children, or incels or weak men isn't solely on men's shoulders. It's a multi-faceted issue, and I believe toxic neo-feminism devalues the positive aspects of men.

*Eric Neuman's "The Great Mother" is a great book at explaining the positive and negative aspects of women.

**JD Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy" elaborates on poor, uneducated Whites in rural America and why they're just as institutionalized as a Black family growing up in the ghetto.

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Isaiah McCall
Isaiah McCall

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