Unless you happen to live in a cave, you've probably noticed that masculinity has undergone quite a thorough examination. Actually, examination is an understatement; demolition appears to be a more fitting description. Masculinity, in some quarters, is labeled a dirty word, with some labeling it "toxic." With the abuses revealed by the #MeToo movement and the misogynistic rhetoric of Donald Trump, the desire to use such a visceral adjective is somewhat understandable, but is it warranted?

From New York to New Delhi, significant debates are taking place. Many of these debates revolve around one question: what, in both an ethical and moral sense, does it mean to be a man? This question, among many others, wrestles with the concept of "toxic masculinity."

You've likely read a lot about toxic masculinity, an all too disingenuous term used to highlight men's dominant position in society, largely achieved through the subordination of women. Critics of masculinity claim that such noxiousness helps sustain and solidify men's dominant position in a patriarchal hierarchy. More recently, the phrase has been adopted and broadcast by fourth wave feminists and supporters like The Good Men Project. Interestingly, the latter defines toxic masculinity as a "narrow and repressive description of manhood, designating manhood as defined by violence, sex, status, and aggression."

As a professor of psychology (and a man), I find the term "toxic masculinity" both offensive and misleading. Firstly, the term is depreciative-a pejorative against men. It implies that even the smallest amount of masculinity is lethal, poisonous; thus, by using the term, it invariably suggests that all men are toxic. Secondly, it's a sound bite, not a theory. "Toxic masculinity" may be a catchy, throwaway remark, but it is not supported by scientific studies. The idea of toxic masculinity unfairly characterizes all men as products picked from the same assembly line. Is the world full of horrible men? Of course it is. As a collective group, men cause a lot of damage, both mentally and physically. However, different, more appropriate ways of calling out these monsters do exist.

Protesters at California State University-Long Beach chanted "shut it down" and "Charlie Kirk must go" in response to the Turning Point USA leader's Campus Clash event on Tuesday night.

Signs reading "smash fascism," "unite to fight patriarchy and bigotry," and "No room for fascists" were held up.

"We must not allow TPUSA to hold space at CSULB and we must speak out against their hate tactics. Join us in resisting white supremacy and defending our campus community."

Antifa also encouraged CSULB students on its Twitter account and website to "please consider registering to pack the auditorium and disrupt the event." Campus Reform obtained the following footage of some of the protests.

Eight people were spotted dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan outside a Muslim community hall in Northern Ireland. The group has been blasted as "barbarian" on social media, while the incident is being treated as hate crime.

Pictures emerged on social media of eight individuals in the white supremacist group's uniform as they stood near the Bangladesh Islamic Centre in Newtownards, County Down, on Saturday night.

Chief Constable George Hamilton branded the incident as "disgusting and distasteful" on BBC NI's The Nolan Show, and promised it would be investigated. The same center was targeted in August last year when a pig head was placed on its door.

As leaders of a state that is totally alien to the region and its indigenous peoples, Israeli political and military planners are obsessed with what they term "strategic threats".

Such "threats" have varied over the years. The prime targets have included former Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and, since 1988, Hamas, Palestine's Islamic liberation movement.

The PLO, "the Hamas" (or "the Khamas" as Israeli leaders constantly - and wholly incorrectly - insist on naming it) have been joined in the last decade or so by "the BDS" - the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

The habitual, and mistaken, Israeli use of the definite article in reference to BDS is an interesting wrinkle, one more revealing of the thinking behind Israeli propaganda than may at first be apparent.

In adding "the" to BDS, Israelis and their supporters give away that they are thinking of BDS as a unitary organisation - a sort of grand conspiracy against Israel. In fact, BDS is a strategy, not an organisation.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said that Ecuador is seeking to end his asylum in its London embassy and hand him over to US authorities.

Assange made the claim on Monday during a teleconference as part of a trial challenging Ecuador's new conditions for his asylum, according to Reuters.

The Wikileaks founder sought political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in June 2012 to avoid being extradited to the US to face trumped-up charges and has been living there ever since.

However, his relations with the host have turned sour recently. Assange filed a lawsuit against Ecuador's Foreign Minister Jose Valencia earlier this month, accusing the government of violating his "fundamental rights and freedoms" with a set of new rules and restrictions.

America isn't doing enough to reduce its carbon footprint, NYT columnist Thomas Friedman has warned, apparently forgetting that he lives in an 11,400-square foot palace. The internet quickly reminded him of this slight oversight.

With November's midterm elections around the corner, Friedman used his byline at the New York Times to issue a deadly serious ultimatum to America: If you don't vote for Democrats, Donald Trump and the carbon emissions-loving Republican Party will murder the environment.

According to the wordsmith, it is "unconscionable" that Trump has not acted on a UN report calling for "immediate carbon emissions." But what can be done? Only a Democrat-controlled Congress can save Mother Earth, Friedman tells us.

Lecturing people about the issue did not sit well with some folks on Twitter, who reminded the humble tree-hugger that he is the proud owner of a palatial 11,400-square foot home, tucked away on a 7.5-acre lot in fancy-pants Bethesda, Maryland.

The feud between 50 Cent and Ja Rule is 'Outta Control,' with the two unlikely to kiss and make up 'In da Club' anytime soon. 50 Cent says he's purchased 200 seats to Ja Rule's upcoming concert, just so they can sit empty.

50 Cent, who has been sparring with his arch rival since at least 1999, made the announcement on Instagram, saying he bought 200 near-the-stage tickets to his enemy's upcoming concert in Texas so they can sit empty.

He followed it up with a Photoshopped image which showed him grinning away in a sea of empty seats.

A group of 50 Anti-Zionist Israelis joined the Great March of Return from the Eastern side of the fence that besieges the Gaza Strip. The group, called Return, raised Palestinian flags that could be seen by the Palestinian protesters and chanted calling for the Right of Return.

A phone conversation between the protesters and Dr. Haidar Eid, a BDS activist protesting West of the fence' took place. "One day we will cross the fence and you will be able to join us, and we will join you", promised Eid.

During the demonstration the protesters witnessed the use of lethal and excessive force by the occupation forces.

After hosting African-American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates on his television show, Jon Stewart asked Coates whether America's changing demographics could finally upend the anti-black society portrayed in Coates's autobiographical Between the World and Me. Coates was doubtful, but Stewart, speaking for many white liberals, replied, "I hope you're wrong." Stewart's presumption is that America's ethnic transformation will relegate whites, and their prejudice, to the sidelines, ending racial inequality.

Regardless of whether Coates is correct to portray American society as tilted against African-Americans, his skeptical response was closer to reality than Stewart's. The stereotypes, worldviews and institutional practices that advantage native-born whites over other groups - in America and Europe - arise as the result of a complex interaction between individuals and collective representations. Stereotypes about African-Americans are passed on from parents and peers, encoded in cultural products, and internalized by blacks themselves, who may come to cherish them and condemn other African-Americans for failing to "act black," i.e. comply with those stereotypes. To imagine this thinking is limited to white people is naïve and belied by the research literature. In fact, stereotypes about African-Americans are easily acquired by Asians, Latinos and even African immigrants. Meanwhile, stereotypes about Hispanics and Muslims may be adopted by African-Americans. What distinguishes whites is not that they are uniquely susceptible to embracing stereotypes about other races and ethnicities. It's that stereotypes about whites are, for the most part, positive rather than negative.

An Ecuadorian judge has thrown out the lawsuit by Julian Assange, objecting to the revised terms of his asylum at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been trapped since 2012.

The judge made the decision following a lengthy hearing held by teleconference. Ecuador will maintain Assange's asylum as long as he wants to keep it, but he must follow the rules laid out for him by the government, an unnamed government official told Reuters on Monday.

The new rules, which were leaked earlier this month by an opposition politician, involve a list of restrictions Assange has argued violate his "fundamental rights and freedoms" as well as Ecuadorian and international law. Among them are restrictions on discussing politics and receiving visitors, and demands of Assange to pay for his own food, medical care, laundry and related expenses of living at the embassy starting December 1.

Ecuador has also threatened to seize Assange's pet cat if he did not care for it properly, according to the leaked regulations.