I’ve never thought about it but I think I have this bias. It’s something I’ll try and think on and correct because it’s dumb.
If someone was describing their friend that posts to Instagram 20 times a day I would 100% picture a woman. If they told me it was a dude it would have bumped me a little.
It’s probably tied to that old (incorrect) thought that women talk more than men.
This article does a good job of pointing out yet another toxic gender norm that applies to men. Ironically most of the replies agree that toxic masculinity is bad, but are also reinforcing toxic masculinity because it’s “unmanly to be weak and successor to harmful gender norms”.
Men are allowed to be weak, and they’re worth helping when they fall for stupid ideas like “it’s unmanly to post a lot” or “it’s unmanly to fall for such an obviously false/toxic idea of masculinity”.
Like most of the avoidant stereotypes around men (especially stereotypes having to do with avoiding things that are feminine), I think it absolutely does boil down to misogyny.
We are talking about an article that covers research quantifying stereotypes about masculinity. These stereotypes are likely rooted in misogyny. If your claim is that talking about these stereotypes in an academic format is tantamount to misogyny you will not get far here. Did you read the article by chance?
I think there’s probably a degree to which folks are taking it a little personally (being frequent posters). I think it’s notable how differently this has been received here versus over on reddit. I’ve noticed that quite a few articles that do fine over there are far more likely to be taken as personal attacks over here.
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