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AloneIBreak posted...

The inclusion of the word toxic renders the phrase unserious and relegates it to armchair psychologists, but I dont think theres any denying that men can formulate their ideas of masculinity in ways that are both personally and socially harmful.

Im not sure masculinity is a valid concept at all though.

So you want a word that describes exactly what toxic means but sounds more academic to you? That's a pretty trivial complaint. Usually when academia has an uncommon complicated word it's because it's using multiple root words combined to describe a complicated topic or it's a very old word that was a simple word in the language it was first proposed in.