I get the feeling that most people’s impression of toxic masculinity–and this is quite possibly deliberate–is men hunting deer and eating red meat and reading books about WW2 and watching Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.
While the opposite of toxic masculinity is men wearing skirts and dancing to pop music and reading Maya Angelou.
So if there’s one thing I hope people take away from this Ezra Miller shittery–besides don’t watch The Flash if you have an ounce of integrity about all that MeToo stuff–is that men can be as effeminate and gay and look as much like Tom Holland as it gets, and still be abusive assholes.
The guy who looks like this and enjoys outdoorsy shit and doing stuff with his hands can still treat the people around him with respect and compassion… why wouldn’t he?
While the guy who looks like this can be a fucking terrorist.
So, y’know, maybe we shouldn’t treat femininity like a virtue and masculinity like a vice. They’re not. They’re just two ways people can express themselves.
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