{"id":8038,"date":"2019-05-31T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=8038"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:45:33","slug":"meryl-streeps-takes-term-toxic-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2019\/05\/meryl-streeps-takes-term-toxic-masculinity.html","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep&#8217;s takes on the term &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest dispatch from the crossroads of faith and culture:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"What Is Toxic Masculinity?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gha3kEECqUk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meryl Streep deserves another award for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/meryl-streep-toxic-masculinity-big-little-lies-season-2-qa-talk-a8936156.html\">this<\/a>. The actress is daring to suggest that the phrase &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toxic_masculinity\">toxic masculinity<\/a>&#8221; may actually be toxic to boys. Good for her! While the video above makes the point that &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; refers to certain bad behaviors (i.e. bullying, sexism, etc.), linking the words &#8220;toxic&#8221;and &#8220;masculinity&#8221; does, in fact, suggest that masculinity itself is toxic.\u00a0 How about actually linking the word &#8220;toxic&#8221; to the actual behavior as opposed to the genetic identity of a group of people. How about we replace &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; with &#8220;toxic aggression&#8221;? Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest dispatch from the crossroads of faith and culture: Meryl Streep deserves another award for this. The actress is daring to suggest that the phrase &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; may actually be toxic to boys. Good for her! While the video above makes the point that &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; refers to certain bad behaviors (i.e. bullying,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1257,26],"tags":[2485,9442],"class_list":["post-8038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-matters","category-feminism","category-politics","tag-meryl-streep","tag-toxic-masculinity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meryl Streep&#039;s takes on the term &quot;toxic masculinity&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2019\/05\/meryl-streeps-takes-term-toxic-masculinity.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meryl Streep&#039;s takes on the term &quot;toxic masculinity&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s the latest dispatch from the crossroads of faith and culture: Meryl Streep deserves another award for this. 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