The world is fúcked when a Rizzle Kick is lecturing other people via the medium of The Guardian newspaper website.
Last edited by SWv2; 10-23-2017 at 03:04 PM.
Apart from anything else, it contains a redundancy because what the users of the phrase actually mean is that masculinity in its commonly and historically understood sense is - by its very nature - toxic.
It's almost up there with 'mansplaining' in my shítlist of bullshít quasi-feminist terms.
IF YOU'RE WRONG AND I POINT IT OUT, LOVE, THAT'S NOT 'MANSPLAINING', IT'S 'EXPLAINING'! AND IT USUALLY HAS TO BE DONE BECAUSE YOU'RE A BIT THICK. ACCUSING ME OF 'MANSPLAINING' DOESN'T MAKE YOU ANY LESS WRONG OR ANY LESS THICK!
It already exists. They're called 'TERFs' (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists).
Basically, they're actual women who rather resent blokes in frocks rocking up and telling them what being a woman is all about.
Much, I imagine, as black people would react to a white bloke covered in boot polish explaining the black experience to them.