Adonis Specimen: Toxic Masculinity Definiton

Toxic Masculinity:

A social science term that describes a narrow repressive type of ideas about the male gender role, that defines masculinity as exaggerated masculine traits like being violent, unemotional, sexually aggressive, and so forth.

Toix masculinity can be categorised as harmful behaviour and attitudes commonly associated with some men, such as the need to repress emotions during stressful situations, and to act in an aggressively dominant way.

Many people confuse the difference between masculinity and toxic masculinity. However, one can be masculine without having toxic masculinity