ToxicMasculinity

Not Masculinity

First, toxic masculinity is not a masculine trait (I suspect).

I'm not doing the "real men don't X" gatekeeping thing.

I'm saying I don't think it is related to masculinity. I think it is coupled to historical gender roles, laissez-faire capitalism, and provider pressure. I know a lot of brilliant, successful men who are rising through the ranks and making bank while getting increasingly traumatized by the workplace demand to be callous.

For a very long time, women worked in the home while men worked outside the home. As capitalism rose - particularly laissez-faire capitalism with its natural bias in favor of sociopathy - the people who were working were pressured to behave sociopathically, and those who were naturally inclined to sociopathy rose more naturally.

As a result, the most prominently successful men have been sociopaths or have behaved sociopathically. There may be some genetic selection pressure that caused an increase in sociopathy among men, but if laissez-faire capitalism is a prime mover of this social phenomenon, then there hasn't been time for it to significantly alter the genetic base.

Prior to laissez-faire capitalism, the only big organizational thing I can think of that could have been pressuring men toward sociopathy would be military hierarchy. I don't think military leadership has had a sufficient number of members with statistically significant larger numbers of offspring to have impacted the genome.

Emotional Abandonment

• https://old.reddit.com/r/JustGuysBeingDudes/comments/18ic5cq/who_can_relate_to_this/
• Not Helping: https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/18ktlc1/something_like_that/

Provider Pressure

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edv_bNEaYTQ
• https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/186i7vo/working_more_than_55_hours_a_week_kills_750000/