Clearly a case where #ToxicMasculinity has overtaken rational thought - I suspect whoever did this simply doesn't care they are likely to get 20+ years porridge - #stabbing someone in a #bank in broad daylight is almost certain to result in #arrest - there's #CCTV all over these places and has been for 50+ years! #UK #crime #Midlands #Derby

https://www.itv.com/news/central/2025-05-06/customer-stabbed-to-death-in-lloyds-bank-in-mid-afternoon-attack

4 teenagers arrested after a #stabbing in #Cambridgeshire - this does look like a targeted attack, also the lads arrested came from areas some distance away where it would be difficult to get to without access to a car - its a warning how bad #ToxicMasculinity has become if they put all that effort into travelling just to commit this #crime (and these things often happen over trivial reasons)

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2025-05-04/four-teenagers-arrested-after-16-year-old-stabbed-in-the-face-at-a-playing-field

With all the bollocks about "Alpha Males" I remembered someone tooting that the alpha is the Testing phase of software. Here's a link to what "Alpha Testing" is, what it does, and who uses it. https://www.productplan.com/glossary/alpha-test/ #ToxicMasculinity

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The "She Matters" mural in Hosier Lane, Melbourne - a mural that names the women who have been killed in attacks of gendered violence, has been vandalised.

The perpetrators painted "war on men" across the names and pictures of the women murdered.

We can't even have our grief.

I'm so tired of men.

When I rise to power, one of my first acts will be to establish national cuddle clinics for all those emotionally neglected souls who think volume equals value.

We get it. Your dad should’ve hugged you.

There's no need to install a jet engine on your scooter.

#Noise
#ToxicMasculinity
#Overcompensating

My poll has concluded, and it has confirmed my suspicions - a lot of men (myself included) have not really been socialized to talk openly about their emotions.

This might be a generational thing - I grew up in 1980s Germany, and I think younger generations are getting better at this. It might also be a matter of education - while I have PhD, I am from a working class family.

But it definitely was, and is, a problem. The default assumption always was that men had to stand on their own, that men had to cope with anything life threw at them, that any man who could _not_ cope with things was weak and deserving of contempt - and the only "negative emotion" that was acceptable to show was anger and rage.

Which is messed up - if we are not free to talk about our emotions, then how are we supposed to work through them other than trial and error? I do know that it took me many years to work though my own issues.

I think this is a great contributor to #ToxicMasculinity . Don't get me wrong, none of this excuses the men who embrace it for their actions. They have full agency, and own their toxic behavior. But when you are taught that anger is the only negative emotion that you can publicly express, then embracing it can become very tempting.

#masculinity #GenderRole
https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert/114413772099713150

I'm not sure how I feel about this article.

On the one hand, contrary to what republicans tell you, it is in fact a teacher's job to engage with current events and put those events in accurate historical context.

On the other hand, parents are absolutely not doing enough to make sure their kids aren't engaging with this stuff online - and it's NOT government's job to censor the internet. It's parent's job to parent.

Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-teachers-lack-tackle-online-misogynists.html?ICID=ref_fark

I just can't
#uspol #toxicmasculinity
#FuckTrumpToHell

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-orders-makeup-studio-installed-pentagon/

#Building sites must have #toilets by law (if the ones in the houses are not suitable to use, maybe not yet plumbed in) - if the #builders are leaving #piss bottles around then it seems like its done as a deliberate "fuck you" to their employers and the end customers as they hate them and their jobs (likely linked to incel / manosphere behaviour) #construction #trades #ToxicMasculinity

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20xj5n325o

The sad part is that some people think so in real life and they actually have influence on their followers and not see this as the #sarcasm & #comedy it's supposed to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2_bG1PF1GQ

Tracee Ellis Ross Reveals Why She Prefers To Only Date Younger Men https://www.inbella.com/1006757/tracee-ellis-ross-reveals-why-she-prefers-to-only-date-younger-men/ #CelebritiesTopics #CraigRobinson #MichelleObama #PublicRelationship #relationship #RelationshipStatus #ToxicMasculinity #TraceeEllisRoss

Analysis: MAGA's Wounded Masculinity

"The Cult of Trump is rooted in fascism's gender anxieties"

"The 'soldier male' is defined by a terror of libidinal & social fluidity, a desire for iron-fisted control over his corporeal self & the world around him, & a violent repudiation of anything associated with the feminine.

"Women in this view were a threat to masculine virtue".

~Klaus Theweleit

https://nilsgilman.substack.com/p/magas-wounded-masculinity

#maga #genderism #patriarchy #fascism #uspol #trump #toxicmasculinity .

Analysis: MAGA's Wounded Masculinity

"The Cult of Trump is rooted in fascism's gender anxieties"

"The 'soldier male' is defined by a terror of libidinal & social fluidity, a desire for iron-fisted control over his corporeal self & the world around him, & a violent repudiation of anything associated with the feminine.

"Women in this view were a threat to masculine virtue".

~Klaus Theweleit

https://nilsgilman.substack.com/p/magas-wounded-masculinity

#maga #genderism #patriarchy #fascism #uspol #trump #toxicmasculinity .

Analysis: MAGA's Wounded Masculinity

"The Cult of Trump is rooted in fascism's gender anxieties"

"The 'soldier male' is defined by a terror of libidinal & social fluidity, a desire for iron-fisted control over his corporeal self & the world around him, & a violent repudiation of anything associated with the feminine.

"Women in this view were a threat to masculine virtue".

~Klaus Theweleit

https://nilsgilman.substack.com/p/magas-wounded-masculinity

#maga #genderism #patriarchy #fascism #uspol #trump #toxicmasculinity .