STEROLIZER posted...
But if they did have a desire to rise through the social/financial/power ranks Id imagine improving upon traits society traditionally views as masculine would help you.
That's kinda making my point for me.
I wonder why in a patriarchal society having a specific type of performed masculinity would be beneficial to you. (And detrimental to you if you don't possess it.)
I don't think this is something that can easily be dismissed as a semantics argument, it's literally the root of the problem at the heart of toxic masculinity.