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- Jun 3, 2014
So, I had a discussion about "testosterone poisoning" with some friends today, and a few of the usual common words started popping up, things like, "toxic masculinity," and "thinking with his dick." Apparently I just hang out with mean girls. But toxic masculinity is supposedly just masculine traits taken too far, or, as some of my friends seem to think, a man using masculinity to oppress females...
Anyway it got me to thinking about the female version. What about "toxic femininity," "estrogen poisoning," and "thinking with her womb?" Isn't the modern Social Justice Warrior/3rd Wave Feminism thing just a version of toxic femininity? Isn't it just women shaming men and other women?
Anyway, as an egalitarian, I think it clearly needs to be a thing, but even talking about the idea seems to bring the 3rd waves out of the woodwork to shout down the very idea that women can be as imperfect and toxic as men.
Anyway it got me to thinking about the female version. What about "toxic femininity," "estrogen poisoning," and "thinking with her womb?" Isn't the modern Social Justice Warrior/3rd Wave Feminism thing just a version of toxic femininity? Isn't it just women shaming men and other women?
Anyway, as an egalitarian, I think it clearly needs to be a thing, but even talking about the idea seems to bring the 3rd waves out of the woodwork to shout down the very idea that women can be as imperfect and toxic as men.
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