CBS News searches for 'a better way to raise boys to avoid toxic masculinity'

“Toxic masculinity” is one of those terms that emerged without any distinct meaning. What’s the opposite of toxic masculinity? Is it just plain masculinity, or something else? Did we learn nothing from those woke Gillette commercials? That it’s toxic for boys to wrestle in the grass while dad cooks steaks on the grill?

"Boys will be boys"? Isn’t it time we stopped excusing bad behavior? Re-think and take action by joining us at https://t.co/giHuGDEvlT. #TheBestMenCanBe

— Gillette (@Gillette) January 11, 2019

Yeah, we won’t be joining you at your stupid website. But we couldn’t help but click to see what CBS News was on about:

Is there a better way to raise boys to avoid toxic masculinity? https://t.co/hr8wTXvTDL pic.twitter.com/SaNsLSUWaQ

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 5, 2019

You mean avoid toxic feminism?

— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) December 5, 2019

CBS News, which is pimping its upcoming documentary “Speaking Frankly: Raising Boys,” reports:

Ted Bunch, co-founder and chief development officer of A Call to Men, an organization that aims to promote healthy and respectful manhood, says people are generally socialized to believe that men need to embody certain ideals in order to be accepted.

“We have coined a term called the Man Box. And that’s a short form for the collective socialization of men, that we’ve all been taught on some level,” Bunch explains. “Not asking for help, always feeling like we have to be in control, dominating and having power over others, not expressing any emotion except for anger. All of those things are rigid notions of manhood. Feeling like we have to be in control, that we have to control things, those are all things that are rigid, and that they don’t bend.”

I fear for the next generation of boys who are growing up with a confused and distorted view of their place and identity. There's nothing worse than stripping boys of their masculinity. We're turning them into pathetic weaklings, devoid of the courage and bravery required in men.

— Dominic K. Obeng (@dom155rich1) December 5, 2019

CBS wants another generation of weak males living at home til they are in their 30's, playing video games til 2am while their girlfriends and wives get up to go to work in the morning

— Atticus Finch (@Atticus51197471) December 5, 2019

I mean that does sound pretty wonderful. I know I'm tired of getting up for work in the morning.

— Kevin H (@Theheierpower) December 6, 2019

Logic lesson for @CBSNews: this is called begging the question. The conclusion (boys should avoid toxic masculinity) presupposes the premise (masculinity is toxic).

Here's another example: Is there a way for major news organizations to avoid lazy propoganda? https://t.co/isklUuoaor

— Dr. Shawn T. Smith (@ironshrink) December 5, 2019

How about we try to quit raising victims and instead raise hard working, responsible members of society.

— BCH (@BCHCOS) December 6, 2019

Hi! 2014 wants it's bullshit talking points back.

— Blaire White (@MsBlaireWhite) December 5, 2019

Im a woman in tech, I recently (2019) received an email invitation to a women in tech convention where they talk about struggles of being in a male dominated field, such as: toxic masculinity, manslpaining, manterruption, wage gap, and more…

— Thinker Bell (@dontMissAlyssa) December 5, 2019

I'm a man in tech. Doing all this oppressing is exhausting. ?

Manterruption is a new one. California is truly the land of innovation.

— Thus Farted Zarathustra (@Middle_Man_11) December 5, 2019

Manturruption: when a man says words while a woman is also saying words.

Unbelievable oppression in the 1st world smh. It's hard out here ?

— Thinker Bell (@dontMissAlyssa) December 5, 2019

Well, given that single mothers raise criminals at a much higher rate than those with their fathers, I’d start there. But y’all don’t want to talk about that

— DemsCantMeme (@DemsCantMeme) December 5, 2019

“Roberto and Tenysa Santiago are parents to three children, one of whom is a boy who expresses himself by occasionally wearing a dress or painting his nails.”

The media’s obsession with pushing this insanity on kids makes me sick to my stomach. https://t.co/l6Txxf6V6O

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) December 5, 2019

Toxic masculinity is repressed masculinity.

The answer to "toxic masculinity" is for men to teach their boys to protect society, to channel their anger productively, to be dangerous in a positive way, and to deal with their emotions.

— Kevin Mayfield (@KevinSMayfield) December 5, 2019

I reject that the only options are:

1. Being an uncontrolled emotional mess who has no filter and pretends to be female.

2. Being tightly wound bundle of repressed emotion.

Modern society seems to think #1 is the answer to #2, when real masculinity is the answer to both.

— Kevin Mayfield (@KevinSMayfield) December 5, 2019

This story is a mess.

— Sydney Watson (@SydneyLWatson) December 5, 2019

From what I can tell, the left just thinks all masculinity is toxic.

— Professor Logos (@ProfessorLogos) December 5, 2019

They want to remove any masculinity from these kids, as if male traits are "bad". It's stupid.

— random thoughts (@musings_n) December 5, 2019

When is the documentary on toxic femininity going to be airing?

I'm THRILLED to be part of this documentary. Parents, teachers, grandparents, coaches — please watch. How we raise our boys affects us all. https://t.co/ps6H6duE60

— Jennifer L.W. Fink (@jlwf) December 5, 2019

Yeah, no.

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