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The cult of toughness

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is Traditional Masculinity Toxic?

I'm genuinely curious if you think there's some good in this attempt, not to deny masculinity and femininity, but to erode some of the boundaries between them. You now, i guess my view is that i don't think traditional masculinity is toxic on its own, though surely some expressions are. What i think is toxic is our fear of more fluidity, our fear of encouraging men to express other parts of themselves. That's what i really do think is toxic. And that's exactly what i see embraced in trump's version ofconservatism or this iteration of conservatism. Ya, you know, wone o that we end updoing.

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