Yes, There is a “Toxic Femininity”

“The man is the head, but the woman is the neck and can turn the head whatever way she pleases.”

And when the head is a toxically masculine patriarch, you have to move toxically to control and manipulate him as a means to your end.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

In social justice circles there is often a lot of chatter about the concept of “toxic masculinity” and the effect that it has on society on both an individual and systemic level. Under toxic masculinity, there are conversations of rape culture, physical violence, the need to control, dismiss, and govern women, and patriarchy. While toxic masculinity is a very real and very damaging thing for one to subscribe to- its existence begs the question “Is there a toxic femininity?”

And my answer to that question is yes.

For the purposes of clarity and understanding, the terms in which I am using the phrase toxic masculinity is “any male identified person (and in lots of cases, female identified persons who seek “equality” with these male identified persons- we will touch on this later) whom subscribes to sexist ideas about the inherent submissiveness or need to own and control female identified persons and are willing to use violence, intimidation, and social shaming techniques to perpetuate these ideas and this system of forced female subservience”. It is a very…