kaylapocalypse:

velvetvetiver:

This new “sensitive” masculinity, where a softer voice and body, creativity and sensitivity, and sophisticated sensibilities replace alpha male imagery, is dangerous. A man aware of the phrases “toxic masculinity”, “intersectionality”, and “socialization” more often than not will use them as disguised weapons for his soft misogyny, rather than use them to interrogate his own position. Switching from one category of masculinity to another is not a solution. When given the chance, the sensitive artist will enact the same violence as the muscular frat boy, to pretend otherwise is foolish. 

Before you recoil, this isn’t about like… gentle soft men who are kind… this is about emotionally and occasionally physically violent assholes who use a gentle soft man veneer to perpetrate and escape responsibility for their actions socially, like John Lennon.