5 Pathetic Examples of “Toxic Masculinity” Women Have Encountered 

Women face many hardships in our patriarchal society, like dealing with toxic masculinity. Toxic masculinity refers to social rules about what it means to be a man that ends up hurting men, women, and gender-nonconforming people.

One exhausted woman took to a popular online forum to ask other women to share their stories about toxic masculinity they’ve witnessed in their own lives.

Examples of “Toxic Masculinity” Women Have Encountered 

One massive element of toxic masculinity is an aversion towards anything feminine. One user says they told a man he had beautiful eyes. Rather than accept the kind compliment, he became defensive and offended.

Men Offended by Certain Compliment

Men Hating When Women Are Smarter Than Them Toxic masculinity relies on the myth that men are naturally stronger, more intelligent, and more powerful than women. Someone shares their story of talking to three men on dating sites, all of whom told her she was too smart and ghosted her.

Men who engage with toxic masculinity are typically confused by lesbians and are even threatened by more masculine presenting lesbians. One self-proclaimed butch even writes that men can become angry and violent with her because they see her as a competition for more feminine women.

Men Feeling Threatened by Butch Lesbian

Men Avoiding the Color Pink Men bully each other for minor things, including wearing pink or owning pink items, simply because the color pink is considered feminine in our society. Somebody even laments about a time when she and her husband were out at a bar where a group of men shouted homophobic slurs at him simply for wearing pink.

Telling Little Boys to “Man Up.” The cycle of toxic masculinity begins with little boys. When men punish their sons for showing emotion or crying, they teach their children that being a man is about denying themselves of a massively human experience.

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