Most men do not subscribe to toxic masculinity traits, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-men-subscribe-toxic-masculinity-traits.html

28 Comments

  1. Don’t think you needed a study for this but, great, I suppose. Next study going to find that not everyone supports slavery?

  2. We need to talk about misandry.

    And how society is trying to replace misogyny with misandry.

    Equality is not revenge.

    Just observe how people react to this study and everything else related to men and masculinity, and try to imagine what would happen if they spoke about women in this way, and how outraged everyone would be.

    It is becoming “normal” and “acceptable” to treat men in the way that society has recently concluded is unacceptable to treat women.

  3. The big limitation to this study is only taking samples from New Zealand, which is a highly developed country. That’s a large confounding factor into societal attitudes.

  4. The definition is not so great. Opposition of feminism is toxic? But modern feminism means something vague about intersectionality and a generalized Marxist view of the world. I don’t see how opposition to that is such a terrible thing.

  5. Johnnadawearsglasses on

    I think most men inherently know this, even at a young age. There’s usually the dickhead group in school, but most boys are just decent people looking to live their lives the best they can.

  6. Mediocre-Pizza-Guy on

    So they did a survey in New Zealand…and they arbitrarily defined eight traits that they think measure toxic masculinity…

    > gender identity centrality, sexual prejudice, disagreeableness, narcissism, hostile and benevolent sexism, opposition to domestic violence prevention efforts, and support for social dominance.

    And then they decided what would be considered a ‘toxic grouping’ of answers.

    Maybe the summary just isn’t very good, but I don’t have the foggiest idea of what this is even really claiming.

  7. thatonewhitebitch on

    Then those men need to put the rest of them in their place like women have done to each other over the toxic bullshit tomboy mentality that keep woman separated.

  8. Augustus_Chevismo on

    Article in a science sub that doesn’t portray men as evil

    *Looks inside*

    Comments desperately trying to dispute the evidence as it invalidates their bigotry.

    Many such cases.

  9. It’s interesting how the percentage of men who subscribe to toxic masculinity traits correlates to the percentage of men who are rapists 

  10. Survey held in one of the most equalitarian countries in the world. Now do the US and most countries in Europe for a different picture for the ‘but…but…’ crowd.

  11. I don’t think people are that simple. You can be toxic in certain situations, non-toxic in other situations. Both toxicity and non-toxicity can coexist within you.

  12. I feel like some people are of the opinion that all masculinity is toxic. I’m not sure evolution would attest to that. To those people this study is going to sound like “not all men.”

  13. Why is there such a bad study made to say man are not bad look the study. Rather than invest for something that can help human. We already know the worst people gonna answer knowing how to make themself look better. 

  14. _FIRECRACKER_JINX on

    In his book “Why does he do that”, Lundy Bancroft describes what happens when you put “normal men” around abusive men.

    He thought the abusive men would become “more normal” and discovered that it was the opposite.

    The normal men became more abusive.

  15. Necessary-Camp149 on

    Last week there was a study saying 97% of men dont have traits associated with “toxic masculinity” or whatever the hell that undefined ambiguous term means.

    … and people here complained about men and the study the whole thread. It was very toxic behavior towards men.

    Now we have another study saying similar and everyone wants to discount it.

    You can look at something like this and be positive while knowing there is work to do on the other 3%

    Way too much hate here and people ready to be toxic towards men. Much more than ~3%…