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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by hhjinks on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:05PM (#36473573)
If these aspects are inappropriate, why does society continue to reinforce them? If these are just individual acts of toxicity, it would be wrong to call it toxic masculinity.
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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by mikrl on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:13PM (#36473625)
Evolutionary pressure.

Society is one abstraction, reproduction is another, and they don’t always mesh nicely.

Maybe the perfect society for reproduction is one of polyamorous warlord harems or something (this is a hypothetical)

Men optimizing for that status quo would be absolutely lethal in our peaceful monogamous society.

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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by darkerside on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:23AM (#36478266)
That used to be the case, but it's not anymore because our society abstraction is powerful enough to stop it
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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by lmm on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:47PM (#36474765)
> If these aspects are inappropriate, why does society continue to reinforce them?

On the male side, prisoners' dilemma. On the female side, tragedy of the commons.

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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by II2II on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:31PM (#36475052)
There is a lot of pressure to conform within one's peer group from a very young age. It is possible that "nurture" pushes men and women down these destructive paths rather than nature.
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