Last summer, I went to visit someone who had started a new business. As I do wherever I go, I take reading with me because you never know what will happen and it eases any anxiety from waiting/wasting time. At the time I was reading the book Shattered, written by Jonathan Allen and Arnie Parnes about the 2016 Clinton campaign.
My friend/client noticed the book when I sat down. He noted I was reading it, but he said he understood because I am a Republican. This did not make much sense to me because the authors are two liberal journalists and the book was principally aimed at Democrats to understand what went wrong with the Clinton campaign. He then launched into a commentary on the fact that no one he had spoken to believed Trump would last the year (2017) as president. His thinking: Trump was not actually interested in being president and he will hit a wall from all the controversy and walk away. Needless to say I let all of this silliness pass by and moved on to discussing his new business.
Comment: Toxic masculinity has become a catch-all buzz-term that gets applied to any act of violence, both gratuitous and petty. But the term means absolutely nothing. Masculinity is not toxic. It's the natural expression of about 50% of the population. And stifling one's natural expression is never a good thing.
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