Hi @MelanieHamlett and @harpersbazaarus! Thanks for the womansplaining, but “toxic masculinity” doesn’t exist and straight men - the people who built civilization - are perfectly capable of having friends 👍🏻 pic.twitter.com/X3cOQCNUL7— Peter Lloyd (@Suffragentleman) September 7, 2019
I appreciate that this is probably another example of modern periodical marketing, where an article is published or posted in order to attract negative attention; attention that is then doubled when the article's author mocks those who either take umbrage at or disagree with the premise.
But, I can't help but wonder if it isn't also a cry for help. The article's author is locked into the world of NYC entertainment and media, a world not known for strong, honest interpersonal relationships, and she suspects that maybe her world is experienced by only a minority of similar-minded and trapped people, and that there is a larger, exterior world of happy men, and women, who are living non-toxic lives filled with friendships and purpose. This would be disturbing enough to force one to pretend that outside world doesn't exist and, instead, every portion of reality corresponds only to her world view.
Her response may be further evidence of this painful, perhaps toxic, isolation:
— Peter Lloyd (@Suffragentleman) September 8, 2019