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Toxic Femininity explained as an extension of positive feminine traits

  If toxic masculinity refers to the extreme, harmful extension of traditional masculine traits (like self-reliance turning into emotional isolation, or strength turning into dominance and physical aggression), then toxic femininity can be understood as the extreme extension of traditional feminine traits. When traits traditionally valued in women—such as empathy, communal focus, nurturing, and maintaining social harmony—are taken to an unhealthy, rigid, or weaponised extreme, they can become deeply toxic to oneself and others. Here are the primary traditional feminine norms that, when overextended, become toxic: 1. Conflict Avoidance → Relational Aggression The Normal Trait: Emphasising social harmony, consensus, and avoiding direct, explosive confrontation to keep a group stable. The Toxic Extension: Relational aggression and social ostracization. Because direct confrontation is discouraged, conflict goes underground. This manifests as gos...
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Discrimination against male candidates in job applications - meta study

On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions link Abstract A preregistered meta-analysis, including 244 effect sizes from 85 field audits and 361,645 individual job applications, tested for gender bias in hiring practices in female-stereotypical and gender-balanced as well as male-stereotypical jobs from 1976 to 2020. A “red team” of independent experts was recruited to increase the rigor and robustness of our meta-analytic approach. A forecasting survey further examined whether laypeople (n = 499 nationally representative adults) and scientists (n = 312) could predict the results.  Forecasters correctly anticipated reductions in discrimination against female candidates over time. However, both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, sl...
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Aggressive behaviour in Testosterone users caused by increase in estrogen

 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2080681/ " Initial investigations into the mechanistic basis of aggression focused on the role of testosterone (T) and a variety of studies on non-human animals found that elevated T levels promote aggression. However, many correlational studies have not detected a significant association between aggression and peripheral T levels. One reason for this inconsistency may be due to differential metabolism of T within the brain, in particular, the conversion of T to estrogen by aromatase. Thus, differences in aromatase enzyme activity, estrogen receptor expression, and related cofactors may have important effects on how steroids affect aggressive behavior. "
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Testosterone study : placebo versus actual testosterone

  https://www.science.org/content/article/does-testosterone-have-bad-rap# " Testosterone has a reputation for causing violent and antisocial behavior. But that's a bad rap, according to a new study. Women given the hormone acted more fairly in an economic game than did those given a placebo. Interestingly, however, women in the placebo group were more antisocial if they thought they had received testosterone, indicating that our negative attitudes toward the hormone have a powerful sway on behavior. " "... the results changed depending on what the women believed they had received. Based on questionnaires, the researchers divided the volunteers into women who thought they had received testosterone and those who thought they had received placebo. Those who got the hormone but thought they got a placebo were the most fair; in more than 60% of their offers, they proposed a 50-50 split of the francs. Women who got the placebo but thought they got testosterone were the m...
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Helen Andrews "The Great Feminization", October 2025

The essential thesis of the book seems to be about emphasising "feelings" over "fairness" (consider MeToo's lack of objective requirement for any kind of judicial process) and the consequences of doing so. She aligns this broadly with "Woke culture". Helen Andrews on Triggernometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfbilhs5dt4 Helen Andrews on Interesting Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkTglJuqq8U Responses (all posted here without any digestion for further investigation): OfBoysAndMen:  https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/the-real-feminization-problem Zubaida Bai https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/women-arent-problem-why-great-feminization-argument-gets-zubaida-bai-ixbuc/
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Gender bias against boys in school teacher assessments

 Boys’ Underachievement in the UK Education System :  Paper link Summary: Boys’ under performance impacts not only their life expectancy but also several health outcomes (suicide, drugs related issues, rough sleeping etc.) and employability. This outcomes can be attributed to many factors: males are more likely to have ADHD or ASD (and these males are seen more negatively than their female counterparts), they are more likely to be in contact with the justice system and when they do they are treated more severely. This more severe treatment of boys persists at school when teachers grade boys or punish misbehaving boys. Finally, our culture has a negative view of boys and masculinity that is unwarranted and can impact boys’ well-being. ‘Systemic bias against boys’? Unexplained differences in Teacher Assessed Grades between boys and girls in this year’s A level results https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2021/08/23/systemic-bias-against-boys-unexplained-differences-in-teacher-assessed-grades-...
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Don Hutton - Suicidality as an Explanation for Spousal Homicide

  Abstract A review is made of feminist explanations for spousal homicide, and a failure to investigate intrapsychic processes is noted. Recent work on suicide is cited as showing insight into cognitive processes involved in spousal homicide, for example, as an escape from pain (called “psychache”).  Certain personality features, such as insecure attachment and borderline personality, are reviewed as especially vulnerable to psychache. For unknown reasons, males seem more susceptible to destructive behavior upon relationship dissolution. The main target of this destructive behavior is the self, followed by spousal homicide. "In a study of 6,321 partner homicides, only 6.5% of female victims experienced domestic violence in the preceding month" "5% of male victims in opposite-sex pairings were perpetrators of violence in the month preceding the homicide" "Perpetrators of murder-suicide had profiles consistent with suicidal people but not with murderers" Mur...
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