There’s a phrase I’m hearing more and more these days. That phrase is “toxic masculinity”. Time was, qualities like ambition, assertiveness, competitiveness, decisiveness and self-control were considered to be manly virtues. Nowadays, they’re liabilities. The steely-eyed man, with a firm handshake and a bit of iron in his spine is thought to be a dangerous anachronism. At best, a relic of an unenlightened past, at worst, a knuckle dragging menace to all around him. We’re told that modern men need to wear their hearts on their sleeves. Be more demonstrably caring and nurturing. Spend more time talking about their problems and less time trying to “fix” them. In other words, men need to be more like women.
This breathtakingly wrong-headed idea is courtesy of Intersectional Feminism. I can best illustrate why the feminists are wrong with the classic “Star Trek” episode, “The Enemy Within”. In the story, Captain Kirk is split into Good Kirk and Evil Kirk by a transporter malfunction, which also leaves the landing party stranded and slowly freezing to death on the planet they were exploring.
Good Kirk is the feminists ideal man. He’s intelligent, caring, nurturing and gentle. On the other hand, Evil Kirk is the very definition of Toxic Masculinity. He’s passionate, violent, selfish and impulsive. The problem is that without his “toxic” qualities, Kirk is hesitant, indecisive, timid and weak. He’s unable to command his ship, or save his men. Conversely, without his gentle qualities, he’s also unable to command. His recklessness, lack of discipline and unchecked emotions leave him fearful and helpless.
The point of the episode is that Good Kirk and Evil Kirk are each half a man. A man without intellect and compassion is a savage brute. A man without aggression and ambition is a docile spectator. It was Jonas Salk’s warrior heart that enabled him to eradicate polio. It was Beethoven’s fighting spirit that caused him to write some of the world’s most beautiful and enduring music, despite his impending deafness.
It was “toxic masculinity” that circumnavigated the globe. It was “toxic masculinity” that gave us air travel. It was “toxic masculinity” that defeated the Nazis. It was “toxic masculinity” that put men on the moon. The same qualities that can lead men to evil, when properly harnessed and focused, enable men to achieve greatness. They build civilizations. They’re warriors and protectors. Scientists and engineers. Explorers and pioneers. Such men don’t go looking for fight, but they don’t back down from one, either.
The fact of the matter is, men and women are different. Not better or worse, simply different. It’s not a societal construct, it’s a biological truth. And no amount of shaming, drug therapy or social engineering is going to change that. I say; viva la difference. Long live the Alpha Male, and the Alpha Females who love them.
4 replies on “On Toxic Masculinity”
I must have said it a thousand times….people today simply do not understand the human animal….and that includes primarily females and beta males…I highly recommend to everyone the YouTube video “The Human Animal”….it was created by an anthropologist who decided to do a series on the human animal…the best one of the set is the one concerning the stages of human growth and sexuality….
The SJW and Green Blob believes that what they want is so just because they WANT it. For them, reality isn’t real nor knowable. Things are not what they are. They become what they are by simply naming or redefining them. The more who believe what they believe, the more what they believe becomes real. For them,reality is only a social construct. Hence, denial and counter evidence must in all cases be violently suppressed or their reality will be destroyed.
Yet, at their core, if they can’t have their reality, no one will be permitted to have a reality. They work to destroy men of the mind and the products of the mine because they cannot and did not wish it to be so. They do not have your best interests at heart. They do not want to live at your expense, they want you to die. This even at the cost of their own existence.
Perception IS reality…..
Perception is not reality. It is perception of what exists and gives evidence for the existence of the thing that perceives. The correspondence between what the perceiver concludes about what he perceives depends upon the quality of thinking and experience of that perceiver.