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That handful of jackasses dominate social media in contrast to their opposition counterparts, and it's creating a public divide between the sexes, hence the 4B movement and the choose the bear thought experiment.
I don't know to what degree this factors into the observable trend that zoomers are having less sex and less romance than prior generations at their age. (I'm sure the affordability crisis is a major factor.) But in the US in 2026, our exemplars of masculinity are demonstrating they are entirely transactional and only understand the power of brute force.
And it's going to be a long, long time before stereotypes of masculinity change for the better.
Feel free to set a counterexample. Plenty of men do. And we need more of them. But when they do, they're not demonstrating what it is to be a man. They're demonstrating what it is to be a functional adult in a cooperative society.
I also think society gender roles should be abolished, and that every gender identity (including non-binary ones) should be respected.
You'll have no disagreement from me that there's far more profit - and a resulting niche of people capitalizing on that - in teaching kids how to be masculine in a toxic way.
My point is it simply doesn't follow that all forms of masculinity are toxic any more than all art is AI because AI art is on the massive rise.
I will grant you I'm referring to what popular culture teaches us masculinity looks like. I'm taking my cues from what social media is popular, what US cinema has to say about masculinity. But that's because it's also about the expectations of displays of manhood, what we are obligated to do if we're real men.
There's also this video (on YouTube) from J. Draper and PBS which asserts that there's been a masculinity crisis for about as long as there's been a moral panic about new fads corrupting our kids (id est, always), that there have always been pundits and editorial correspondents saying that men are becoming too effeminate.
One source I haven't yet been able to tap is what trans men have to say about masculinity, because to them social expression of their gender is super important. But I don't know any trans men well enough to stop and ask them.