Interesting. There is a strong movement to curb your male toxicity.
It is doomed (the movement). The average supposedly 'toxic male' doesn't care what the pajama boys and whiners have to say about it (except for amusement purposes). Their opinion just doesn't factor in.
Aside from not financially supporting the people who attack us (by boycotting their products), the disdain for them was perhaps summed up best in
Hamlet with the line "
Knowest thou this butterfly?"
Why should we have any respect for the opinions of people who have not earned our respect?
They are free to harbor disdain for the type of guy who would drag their sorry ass out of a burning car.
It's a free country, in no small part thanks to "toxic males".
NOTE:
The whole 'manly white man=evil racist misogynist" meme has been going in the entertainment end of things for a couple of years now (while a lot of ads show white looking women with very dark skinned males, or sometimes a white guy who is an absolute idiot) and the house hunting shows on cable showed about one 'couple' in three to be same sex partners. It isn't even subtle distortion any more.
Again, these are observations, not judgement of any of the shown 'lifestyles', but the mix is way off social norms, and that reeks of subtle promotion/desensitization, establishing a concept of what is "normal" that is skewed by overrepresentation of behaviour that is not that prominent in our society as being much more commonplace than it is.
When people get it in their heads that behaviour is normal or commonplace, there is less reason to not behave that way, and that is how media can set the standard. Now, watch on TV how people go about solving problems (murder is commonplace). All those perceived norms have an effect on people's behaviour, and in society, that includes their expectations about how the people around them are supposed to behave. Those cultural standards, from infidelity to promiscuity to homosexuality to other aspects of personal relationships affect the culture, the people in it, their perception of the world around them, and thus their beliefs as to how that world is supposed to work. Their ideals become less than what actually might be ideal for them, and the human wreckage that creates will have effects for generations to come, not to mention the effect it has on our Republic in general, with people being programmed to expect more from government and to do less for themselves.
Of course, us people "suffering" from toxic masculinity really don't care, personally, except that we really hate to see people suckered into situations that will likely have a bad outcome.
For those folks who rail about our "toxicity", live how you want--but don't expect me to subsidize it.
Protest away.
Just stay off my lawn.
