Michael Ian Black

Yeah, it's a weird one.

Yeah.

Because I feel like – and it's not because of the word toxic exactly.

Das sind die Regeln der Straße. I try not to use the term toxic masculinity. Yeah, it's a weird one, yeah. Because I feel like – and it's not because of the word toxic exactly. It's because we don't have a model in our culture – Das ist eine Art gesundes Masculinismus. Ich denke nicht, dass die meisten von uns das definieren können, was Masculinismus ist.

Das sind die Regeln der Straße. I try not to use the term toxic masculinity. Yeah, it's a weird one, yeah. Because I feel like – and it's not because of the word toxic exactly. It's because we don't have a model in our culture – Das ist eine Art gesundes Masculinismus. Ich denke nicht, dass die meisten von uns das definieren können, was Masculinismus ist.

Das sind die Regeln der Straße. I try not to use the term toxic masculinity. Yeah, it's a weird one, yeah. Because I feel like – and it's not because of the word toxic exactly. It's because we don't have a model in our culture – Das ist eine Art gesundes Masculinismus. Ich denke nicht, dass die meisten von uns das definieren können, was Masculinismus ist.

It's because we don't have a model in our culture –

to me, that expresses a kind of healthy masculinity.

I don't even think most of us could define what masculinity is.

It is an amorphous trait of characteristics that people sort of foist on men and say, well, if you're a man, you do X, or if you're a man, you do Y. And they will say things like, be a man, as if you are not already.

Mm-hmm.

um so i don't feel like we have a sense of healthy masculinity against which to label masculinity which is toxic um and so masculinity as a whole when we think of those those traits that you just listed we we've now been conditioned to think of that as toxic and i don't think it is and it's clear you don't think it is no to me

Es ist ein amorphes Charakteristik, das Menschen auf Männer gefeuert und sagen, wenn du ein Mann bist, tust du X oder wenn du ein Mann bist, tust du Y. Und sie sagen Dinge wie, sei ein Mann, als ob du es nicht bereits bist. So I don't feel like we have a sense of healthy masculinity against which to label masculinity, which is toxic.

Es ist ein amorphes Charakteristik, das Menschen auf Männer gefeuert und sagen, wenn du ein Mann bist, tust du X oder wenn du ein Mann bist, tust du Y. Und sie sagen Dinge wie, sei ein Mann, als ob du es nicht bereits bist. So I don't feel like we have a sense of healthy masculinity against which to label masculinity, which is toxic.

Es ist ein amorphes Charakteristik, das Menschen auf Männer gefeuert und sagen, wenn du ein Mann bist, tust du X oder wenn du ein Mann bist, tust du Y. Und sie sagen Dinge wie, sei ein Mann, als ob du es nicht bereits bist. So I don't feel like we have a sense of healthy masculinity against which to label masculinity, which is toxic.

masculinity, I'll discuss masculinity the way I think women have been talking about femininity for the last 60 or 70 years.

The women's rights movement

which began, you know, you could argue 200 years ago, but I'm just talking about modern women's rights movement, was predicated on the idea that women, these delicate flowers who to this point had never lifted themselves from bed longer than cooking their man breakfast, that these people –

And so masculinity as a whole, when we think of those traits that you just listed, we've now been conditioned to think of that as toxic. And I don't think it is. And it's clear you don't think it is.

And so masculinity as a whole, when we think of those traits that you just listed, we've now been conditioned to think of that as toxic. And I don't think it is. And it's clear you don't think it is.