For a little more than a decade, masculinity has been the code for everything that goes wrong in the world.
Hanna Rosin announced “The End of Men” in the wake of the financial market crisis, referring to the ideas of classic, patriarchal masculinity.
The “old white man” became a household word (and is also reflected in the boomer that made a name for itself in 2019).
And then there is the toxic masculinity that appears in many publications as a kind of pleonasm - isn't all masculinity always already toxic?