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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by delecti on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:16PM (#31266578)
Solving hard problems isn't an inherently masculine thing, but basing a work culture's progression around being able to prove employees solved hard problems is a pretty good example of toxic masculinity. And the phrase "toxic masculinity" does not mean that all masculinity has problems, it's a separate (and pretty well-documented) concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_masculinity

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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by tomp on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @07:15PM (#31267113)
Can you list example of "toxic femininity"?

If not, you're just sexist, full-stop. (c.f. "toxic blackness" or "toxic Jewishness")

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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by delecti on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @07:27PM (#31267200)
I'm not the one who named it. You're welcome to try and establish a new name for the phenomenon.

Also, yes, "toxic femininity" is also a term (and is even linked from the other page), but for some reason I don't think you were asking in good faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalized_sexism#Toxic_femi...

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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by tomp on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @07:42PM (#31267370)
ah, yeah, of course, "toxic femininity" is defined in such a way that men are still evil

> such beliefs and expectations "[suggest] there is no a priori female self" apart from the needs and desires of men and boys

textbook sexism

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