Never allow others to burden you with unwarranted guilt and shame. You will find your load heavy enough without adding spurious claims of ignominy and sordidness to it.
I first became familiar with the term "toxic masculinity" a couple of years ago, and thought to myself "Oh great, some more post-feminist misandrist bulls--t. Misandry is "the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against menor boys."
But I recently read an article by Maureen Ryan that pulled me up short and allowed me to see the light, so to speak. When Ms. Ryan speaks of "toxic masculinity" she is not referring to masculinity per se, but to a very specific type of masculinity... and I could not agree with her more.
