Then you don’t understand what toxic masculinity is.

No one has ever said there’s anything wrong with being confident or any of the other things.

The thing is.... You want to stay in the sweet spot, the Goldilocks zone, of masculinity. Toxic masculinity is masculinity well beyond the sweet spot. It burns and it freezes as a result. Get it?

There’s a difference between being confident and being so (falsely) sure of yourself that you are arrogant, brazen, and entitled.

There’s a difference between standing up for yourself if you have to or need to and deliberately going out and starting shit for no damn reason other than your stroking your own Gollum ego.

There’s a difference between building a meaningful relationship with someone slowly, correctly measured with a proper foundation, letting them build their half up and meet you halfway and strolling up to a virtual stranger and announcing your “love" and demanding they make plans for marrying you or jump into bed with you, or give you attention, or “submission", or whatever.

There’s nothing wrong with masculine traits but they need to be tempered with prudence, good sense, and patience. Otherwise, you start to see all this other bullshit. The “toxic" stuff that nobody, male or female, in their right mind should want to be a part of or a party to.