In the last few years, a movement has arisen among young men as a reaction to the emasculating influence of feminism upon men world-wide. The backlash against the anti-masculinity movement has produced sexually promiscuous online influences like Andrew Tate. These have become the darlings of many in the conservative movement—and many of the young men in your church and school.

The term toxic masculinity entered common usage but has varying definitions. As an article by Michael Salter in The Atlantic in 2019, states, there are problems with the term.

A predictable conflict has accompanied the term’s rise. Many conservatives allege that charges of toxic masculinity are an attack on manhood itself, at a time when men already face challenges such as higher rates of drug overdose and suicide. 

Rather than being a term that identified a certain kind of masculinity, it was taken by some to identify all masculinity as toxic. WebMD identifies these six traits as identifying characteristics of toxic masculinity. These typify the general definitions elsewhere.  

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