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  1. Pete Hogsbreath really cracks me up. Mr. Manly Man, Alpha male, he-man. anti- trans, anti-gay, warfighter, secretary of War.
    Had a *makeup room* installed in the Pentagon.
    And this manicured, hair gel wearing, regular facial getting man is gonna tell this firefighter, welder and construction worker about, "traditional manhood" GTFO
    #genderaffirming #trans #toxicmasculinity #gay

  2. Not sure what to make of this, and can't see any positives either - #MetPol nicked more people at #Carnival than last year, and although there were at least fewer #stabbings and #violence the amount of creeps and #ToxicMasculinity on the sidelines of this event have give the Old Bill a decent amount of #copaganda they will use to justify #LFR and other #surveillance throughout #London

    There's also nothing you can easily compare the event to, its not the same as a #festival that only privileged rich folk can afford as the whole site is (quite rightly) open to the general public throughout the event but I don't think there's anything like it anywhere else in Britain..

    itv.com/news/london/2026-09-01

  3. Wolfgang Storm’s past won’t stay buried. In Chapter Two of The Homeless Diaries: Tales of a Broken Man, toxic desire and obsession take root — a haunting exploration of intimacy, survival, and scars that never fade. #Fiction #ToxicMasculinity #BooksAndAuthors medium.com/@heelextensi...

    The Homeless Diaries: Tales of...

  4. You would think someone smart enough to go up to #University would steer clear of dodgy #scams (even if they are a business management student) but not shank his former friend in broad daylight in the street directly outside the University!

    Was a 3 grand loss really worth doing 10,5 years in #prison for? (assuming 66,67% early release as it was #manslaughter rather than murder with a minimum tarriff)

    Maybe he even calculated that (works out as about 77p per day he sits inside)

    Not the first #stabbing amongst Uni students in recent times either, there was once a time when they were less likely to resort to #violence but it seems #ToxicMasculinity has also put paid to that..

    #Leicester #DeMontfort #crime

    itv.com/news/central/2026-08-2

  5. There was once a time not so long ago when a #rave event was considered so safe and friendly anywhere in #Europe that even #Police didn't pay much attention to it and turned a blind eye to the amount of #drugs being used as most of the time no one got hurt everyone got home safely until the next time - it seems that thanks to #ToxicMasculinity and #violence those times are now gone..

    itv.com/news/2026-08-30/manhun

  6. RE: c.im/@BBC/117156273449356404

    His little house of cards comes crashing down. He ain't the Super-Rich, he just wants to look like one. Weird little man...

    #AndrewTate #ToxicMasculinity

  7. I'm revisiting films from 1999 and before

    New Jack City released in 1991

    I gave away all my vinyl to Oxfam. The volunteer who received them lay them flat which damages them; but kept

    (1/3)

    #blackfilm #greatfilm #blackmusic #misogynoir #toxicmasculinity #incel #blackmastodon

  8. @fenixmaster

    It's common but not fair to reduce complex geopolitical situations to street beef logic

    But with #Russia it's fair

    Russia is the guy with a constant desperate need to do #bravado

    But it's all hapless insecurity

    Real "tough guys" rarely speak, and when they do it's few words. If it comes to it, they're ready. And good at it

    It dovetails with the concept of #toxicMasculinity: that to "be a man" somehow means you have to be a loud aggressive incompetent loser

  9. Middle aged loser thugs strike again!

    "A 102-year-old man has died of his injuries after allegedly being assaulted at a pub in south Wales

    A 56-year-old man from Llanelli was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm in connection with the case. He has been released but remains under investigation."

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a

    #PhillipOrmerod #UKCrime #ToxicMasculinity #Gwent

  10. I guess Whiskey Pete's reaction to all of this will be "just shut up and deal with it like Warriors" believing himself to be in the Warhammer 40k Universe....

    #PeteHegseth #MentalHealth #USNavy #WhiskeyPete #ToxicMasculinity #WH40k

  11. Manospheres behind me on plane: “Dude I was on Joe Rogan yesterday & he was looking at my instagram.” Other dudebro: “Gotta capitalize on that in a follow-up video.” “Yeah, bro” “Nice! Yeah.” Then they go on to talk about unfaithful women. Oh gods just jerk each other off already. 🍆💦
    #toxicmasculinity #shallowpeople

  12. Worrying aspect of this #crime is offender clearly knows he will get #prison for stabbing someone, and appears to have already researched sentence he would get and still is prepared to commit the offence for just £20 -whilst he's mistakenly picked the highest minimum tarriff for an adult offender committing #murder in public rather than a juvenile (its about 16 years these days), even that wasn't a deterrent.

    If he had the #knife since Year 9 that means he has been routinely carrying it and preparing to use if for 2-3 years..

    If #ToxicMasculinity isn't addressed in #British society (which needs to start before primary school age!) we are never going to solve the problems with overcrowded #prisons as they will keep filling up with lads like this..

    itv.com/news/meridian/2026-08-

  13. Review: Duet of Beautiful Goddesses

    Duet of Beautiful Goddesses (Megami-tachi no Nijuusou, 女神たちの二重奏), 2010-2012, Hanakouji, Yumi, Manga Sunday STORY: 6 Meet Akane Kida. Broke and alone with her shut-in brother, she is at the end of the rope. But, on a fateful day, she meets Reika Tojo, a rich married lady who looks just like her twin! Is it one of these stories where people exchange their lives? Yes! Is it going to be full of outrageous romantic misunderstandings because people don't communicate enough? Yes! […]

    mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/p

  14. So, I think it wasn't an essay, but two movies I saw in class -- "The Bro Code" and "The Strength to Resist". I'll see if I can find a link to those. In the meantime, here is my student response to the movies that I wrote back in 2017.

    "The movie, “The Strength to Resist,” Dr. Gail Dines talks media’s impact on boys and men, and how “men are affected by society’s encoded messages of what it means to be a man” (Strength). However, in the movie, “The Bro Code,” Dr. Thomas Keith describes “Maxim model of manhood” (Bro Code). If a man doesn’t “measure up to Alpha Male, he will put you in your place,” (Bro Code). If one doesn’t measure up to “a tough guy badass” (Bro Code) hypermasculine model, then you’re were either feminized or a “a McLovin” (Bro Code) nerd-type.

    The #hypermasculine model puts pressure on boys and men to hide their feelings or be considered weak or feminized, and to act and look a certain way – with an emphasis of being buff and tough. But it is painfully obvious – especially after watching “The Strength to Resist” and the Ms. magazine article – that there is a lot of pressure on girls and women to look a certain way – with boys and men can be brainwashed into judging women by their looks and thinking of them as just “sex objects” (Bro Code).

    Gloria Steinem summed it up nicely when she described how that “even ‘real’ non-model women photographed for a woman’s magazine are usually made up, dressed in credited clothes, and retouched out of all reality” (Steinem, 181). Unrealistic expectations hurt everyone, and only by rejecting these standards can we be ourselves, and not media-constructed hyperboles."

    Media-constructed hyperbole describes #Hegseth perfectly!

    @EricLawton @Remittancegirl @Crystal_Fish_Caves

    #ToxicMasculinity #BroCode

  15. I just came across this in my feed....

    "It is not easy to find a direct economic explanation of the behaviour of the people who now rule the world. The desire for pure power seems to be much more dominant than the desire for wealth. This has often been pointed out, but curiously enough the desire for power seems to be taken for granted as a natural instinct, equally prevalent in all ages, like the desire for food. Actually it is no more natural, in the sense of being biologically necessary, than drunkenness or gambling. And if it has reached new levels of lunacy in our own age, as I think it has, then the question becomes: What is the special quality in modern life that makes a major human motive out of the impulse to bully others? If we could answer that question — seldom asked, never followed up — there might occasionally be a bit of good news on the front page of your morning paper."

    #GeorgeOrwell, 1946.

    wist.info/orwell-george/85229/

    @Remittancegirl @Crystal_Fish_Caves

    #ToxicMasculinity #Colonialism #Capitalism #Bullying #DesireForPower #Orwell #OrwellQuotes

  16. So, this isn't the article I read for class (I'll dig around for that), but this is one that I bookmarked from 2019...

    @Remittancegirl @Crystal_Fish_Caves

    Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden

    #ToxicMasculinity—and the persistent idea that feelings are a "female thing"—has left a generation of straight men stranded on emotionally-stunted island, unable to forge intimate relationships with other men. It's women who are paying the price.

    By Melanie HamlettPublished: May 2, 2019

    harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat

  17. So, I read an excellent essay about #ToxicMasculinity a few years ago. Pretty much, it has to do with #hierarchy (#capitalism / #colonialism) making men feel powerless -- so they bully other men for dominance, and the result is dominating attitudes toward those perceived as lower in status (women, girls, foreigners, etc).

    In many ways, it goes way back to #AncientGreece -- pretty much, the only ones who had any rights at all were landowning men who were Greek citizens. And, of course, power, wealth and status dominating over those dominated men. #TheOdyssey and #Odysseus' attitude toward women (other than Penelope), those of lesser status, and foreigners -- was typical of the Achaean male viewpoint.

    @Remittancegirl @Crystal_Fish_Caves

  18. Eliminating #ToxicMasculinity best starts when they are young. Not sure if the current crop can be hugged out of it, but hopefully, if they wake up, they will accept hugs and healing, @poisonpunk . It can be done! @Crystal_Fish_Caves