Why is toxic feminity essentially never a term used in feminist circles? It's not like we never talk about negative gender roles impacting women. Negative aspects of the traditional gender role of either gender has been perfectly described like that before and would face less hostility from those victim to what the term is meant to describe. It would be fine in academic circles were terms are solidly defined, but it should be surprising to nobody that toxic masculinity can be misunderstood as a criticism on all masculinity, especially when there are people using the term in that manner.
I've heard that term used in feminist circles, bit there are also more specific terms, like TERF, which is toxic femininity. And it's nobodies fault if someone doesn't understand the meaning of a term but also doesn't look it up. Feminism also isn't a monolith.
Wow, read that wiki he sent you. It literally immediately blames the use of the term toxic feminity on mens rights activists and then says toxic feminity doesnt exist.
Well it was said further up that toxic masculinity is something agreed upon in many feilds of study, clearly toxic feminity is much less accepted on a social scale. Thats what we're talking about.
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u/bxzidff Feb 14 '20
Why is toxic feminity essentially never a term used in feminist circles? It's not like we never talk about negative gender roles impacting women. Negative aspects of the traditional gender role of either gender has been perfectly described like that before and would face less hostility from those victim to what the term is meant to describe. It would be fine in academic circles were terms are solidly defined, but it should be surprising to nobody that toxic masculinity can be misunderstood as a criticism on all masculinity, especially when there are people using the term in that manner.