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AAC - TOXIC MASULINITY STIGMAS - WHAT IS TOXIC MASCULINITY AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT MEN - Q1 - STEVE · Wellbeing Solutions - Ask A Counsellor

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  SPEAKER_00: Toxic masculinity.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure that there's toxic masculinity.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: There are toxic males, but not necessarily toxic masculinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: But how does toxic masculinity affect males?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a train of thought where we as men we think we're tougher than we actually are.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should be physically strong, we should be emotionally callous, we should behave in an aggressive way.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: We should reject anything which is feminine in nature or behaviors, like showing affection or emotions, and that as a man we should be working towards obtaining power and status, either that is through financial or social status.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it affects men by we shy away, we don't open up to our thoughts, our feelings, which can cause us harm and damage, but not only our us harm and damage as a man, but also those around us.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: We can become angry, we can become emotionally um missing from certain situations.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we um will ignore health conditions because we see it as not being the masculine thing to do.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: So uh for example, you know, looking at you know testicular cancer in men, um, we ignore the fact that we would find lumps, you know, on our on our bodies and ignore the fact that something could be wrong because it was deemed as being a weakness, and to show that weakness means that we are less of a man.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um it affects men in so many ways where we feel that we we can't be supported, um and we refuse to engage in you know those who would help us so in a helping behavior.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um if we see somebody being bullied, we wouldn't do anything about helping that person being bullied, um or if we see somebody who's being assaulted, we will more than likely not get involved with that.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um that um where it becomes with um a train of thought, this this toxicness.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um it it has a unhealthy impact on the you know with the social consequences of not or with intervening rather than not intervening, and we just become an active bystander.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um