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Toxic Masculinity - Coggle Diagram
Toxic Masculinity
How can it be addressed?
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men should be willing to challenge their own privileges such as higher pay and more leadership positions
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By calling out men when they make any sexist joke, and preventing any immoral behavior that must be called out.
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Who does it affect? How?
Men:
It affects men who have that trait by considering certain traits such as being emotional and vulnerable as feminine and in a negative light.
It also affects those around them who may not identify with or relate to conventionally masculine traits.
It imparts on young boys from an early age as “necessary parts of being a man”
It affects women by holding structures of patriarchy that stop women from accessing certain positions of power or more fundamentally challenges their basic human rights.
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To lessen antisocial behaviour, mental health difficulties, suicides, gender-based crime, and domestic violence by conforming to archaic aggressive masculinity standards
What is it?
Origin of the term
The term “toxic masculinity” was reportedly first used by psychologist Shepherd Bliss in the 1980s and 1990s.
Basic Meaning
It is assumed that some toxic behaviors and actions are done by men that end in violence which, affects men themselves and others around them.
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