THE MALE GAZED: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men, by Manuel Betancourt Toxic masculinity.
Fragile masculinity. Like most pop-sociological truisms that gain traction on social media, these are great buzzwords but they fail to grapple with nuance.
A slogan isn’t a thesis, of course, but I’ve always found these terms to be simplistic substitutions for more interesting conversations.
Yes, masculinity, which is often a patriarchal institution that metes out seemingly impossible social expectations for men and boys, has no shortage of problems.