Everything masculine is under attack. You are not imagining it.

It is not new. This has been going on for about 40 years - since about the time that lesbians took over the women's lib business.

(I like lesbians - but it was a very bad idea for lesbians to become the voice of women in general, because lesbians do not understand straight women at all - probably even less than men understand women - because lesbians falsely project their own experiences as being the experiences of most women. If a lesbian is offended when a man compliments her, she assumes that every woman must be offended if a man compliments her - even as many women are desperate for compliments. Men, at least, are not encouraged to have the false belief that their own experience is typical of most women.)

In the last few years the attacks have increased, but there is also a growing awareness of how absurd these attacks have become and the harm they have done.

That said, I am not going to say that every critique is without merit. The vast majority of the agitators have no idea what they are talking about and appear to be simply anti-male, but the idea of "toxic masculinity", for instance, has some merit if you understand that this is a separate thing from real masculinity, and even in opposition to real masculinity. "Toxic masculinity" can refer to cultural expectations that force men to act in ways that they really don't wish to act in order to give an acceptable appearance of "masculinity". That really is toxic. It includes, for instance, the expectation that men should never show any interest in children other than their own - which lays the foundation for the strangely popular idea that any man who does show an interest in children must be wanting to molest them.




Baldur