I actually do have basic comprehension skills. Why not stick to the basics instead of inventing a new problematic term? Terms like “machismo” are older, have been in use for far longer and are quite competent at getting the point across. Toxic water and bad bacon are *still* water and bacon. They are just water and bacon with bad things mixed inside.

You are comparing tangible consumables with something that is an attitude, a mode of being. Toxic water and bad bacon are still water and bacon, but “toxic masculinity” isn’t masculinity at all, as you admit, Lookyloo. The biggest problem that I have with it is how it ties this “toxicity” to masculinity.

Why do that? Why does jerkish behavior have to be described as ANY kind of masculinity? Toxic or otherwise? Few people outside of the men’s rights movement or fem shaming “masc” gay/bi men think that “toxic femininity” should be a thing, few outside of those groups would even dare suggest it.