It’s also very dangerous to accept the notion of ‘toxic masculinity’ And it would be just as dangerous and wrong to accept a notion of ‘toxic femininity’. This is because such terms imply an inherent and fundamental toxicity associated with simply being or belonging to a certain gender. And as censorship above points out that leads to the wholesale demonisation of an entire group of people (in this case males 50% of the population)). It’s not 1,000,000 miles away from how Jewish people were demonised by the Nazis and we all know how that ended.

Both males and females can behave competitively, and exhibit aggressive antisocial behaviour to their peers and to the opposite sex .Men and women In general have different ways of expressing antisocial behaviour. Men tend to use outright physical intimidation and aggression where as women are more inclined towards verbal attacks and reputation destruction (slander and gossiping). These differences are due to innate biological factors such as testosterone levels and physical size as well as neuronal (‘hardwired’) behavioural patterns.

Civil society has both laws and informal moral codes of conduct to contain antisocial behaviour when it becomes excessive and these need to evolve sensitively and naturally and apply to all sexes, adjusted for gender differences.