Sarah Harte: Men playing the victim when women succeed harms all of us

Article here. Excerpt:

'Lately, I’ve noticed, and I say this as a feminist, the term ‘toxic masculinity’ has simply come to replace ‘masculinity’ in a pat and unhelpful way.

Given how new and fragile the relative gains women have made it feels like heresy to say that you may be concerned about boys. Because as a woman it’s hard not to suspect that tackling any ‘crisis in masculinity’ would necessarily involve undermining female progress but addressing women’s ongoing patriarchal reduction must involve considering men. It’s basic logic.

According to a recent American Scientific article, the so-called crisis in masculinity has been around for about 300 years. Another writer opines that any sociological change provokes ‘elite men’ into imagining a crisis of masculinity which sounds plausible.'