Posts

Showing posts from March, 2020

Coronavirus Draws Out My Inner Hoarder

https://www.greenwichtime.com/opinion/article/Opinion-Coronavirus-draws-out-my-inner-hoarder-15156319.php

Are 'Real' Men Actually Toxic (to Themselves)?

We see a lot of men strutting around, puffing out chests, sometimes big muscles, he-men, acting like nothing can get them down. I'm not just talking about the White House.  But a new study has found that toxic masculinity is unsafe -- even for men . What are we talking about?  According to newswise.com, it can harm the men feeling it just as much as the women they are around. “Often, toxic masculinity is a term that we use to describe how masculinity affects other people, especially women,” newswise quotes study co-author  Stef Shuster, MSU,assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Sociology at  Michigan State University   . “But our study shows how toxic masculinity also has detrimental consequences for the men who subscribe to these ideals. The very premise of hegemonic  (rulin g or  dominant in a political or social context)  masculinity in some ways is based on the idea of isolation because it’s about being autonomous and not showing a lot of emot