I would like to dissect an idea that is prevalent within ignorant circles. Mainly that extreme aggression or other unruly behaviors are hypermasculinity. I saw this within the binder belonging to the group as well. This is absolutely an incorrect name for unruly or predatory behavior. The truth is that both of the sexes have the capacity to behave unruly or predatory towards other people. It is not something found exclusively in the male genome.
Calling this sort of behavior hypermasculinity is totally without context and shows someone has a very biased point of view. Aggression is aggression and being a predator or sexually unhealthy is just that. Ones biological sex nor Gender or Gender role has nothing to do with these sorts of things. They are maladaptive behaviors that can be coming from any individual. The linking bad behaviors with masculinity in some form or other is just another manifestation of the feminist idea of "toxic masculinity." A term which serves a similar purpose of removing from ones mind female aggressors and predators. Is the Cat Fight between two women not a show of extreme aggression in a female?
It is seeing crap like that in the literature of the groups intended to help men that is part of the reason men do not look for help. Why go somewhere with a vocabulary that makes ones masculinity something that needs to be thought of as possibly ones own enemy? Masculinity is not toxic and uncivilized behaviors are not some hyper version of it. Being a man is not some sort of original sin curse that men need to unlearn and undo in order to be happy or relieved of their issues. Learning managing skills for issues does not mean convincing men they need to be more feminine or more like women. Managing skills means teaching what works regardless of ones sex.
Born Again Christian; Biblical Fundamentalist, Received Text-KJV, Dispensational
