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  • Ye, that’s all cool and good. But people aren’t frozen images. A guy without sheets was a baby, a boy, a teen and then an adult. Imho saying it’s the dad’s fault that a guy doesn’t have sheets is overly reductionist.

    And it’s imo also wrong to willy-nilly attribute it to toxic masculinity, because toxic masculinity isn’t about men per se. Everyone, all sexes and genders, can exhibit toxic masculine behaviour. That’s the “neat” part, which I think everyone should have down by now.

    Part of the toxicity is refusing to listen to advice from “females”

    Part of - or rather the main job of - being a teen is refusing to listen to advice from your parents. Yes, disclaimer here, dislcaimer there, there will be endless cases where it’s actually toxic masculinity manifest. But why water down the terms, when there’s many other more simple explanations.


  • No offense, but I think you’re completely over-politicizing a simple thing. If you’re a mother and you notice your son doesn’t have sheets, you very well better tell him. Else you’re probably part of the problem, completely (or atleast partly) separately from toxic masculinity.

    How do you think this plays out in a boys life? Do they spawn and then they’re auddenly mid twenties without life skills and it’s down to how the dads didn’t instill all of those skills in them?

    If anything, if it was down to the toxic masculine dads, they would have forced their mothers to teach their boys, because sheets are house work. But that’s obviously f’d logic.