What if I told you that "toxic masculinity" isn't actually real? It's a made-up concept by late-stage feminists as a way to self-victimize, which is modern feminism's ultimate goal since there's no real reason for it to exist nowadays.
I think, in 2025, the year of our Lord, that the self-victimization schtick is starting to wear thin. Millennial women, to whom the feminist message was sold to a great degree, are finding out too late that they actually do want children and that their corporate ladder climbing wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Millennial women who didn't buy in are almost flaunting their lifestyle as children-bearing housewives on TikTok, while more than a few Gen-Z women are openly yet quietly embracing being a "trad wife."
Modern feminism is left with no other option but to double and triple down on the "marriage is slavery" narrative to give their misery company. As my colleague Brad Slager wrote in a piece that truly shows the hilarious depths to which modern feminism has sunk, its R&D department has come up with a new phrase that makes being in a relationship sound exhausting:
Over at Vice News, Ashley Fike reports that women are not just facing frustration in the dating realm; they are done with dating entirely. That is a sweeping declaration, but she has reason to reach this conclusion. There is a common problem that apparently ALL women face – “mankeeping.”
This coined term describes, by my reading of things, that women are frustrated that they are expected to partake in a relationship. Mankeeping, we are told, is the burdensome effort of tending to your male counterpart.
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I definitely recommend reading Brad's column on this, because I think he rips apart the mentality quite well, and I don't think I need to add anything to it, but what I do want to point out is that these lonely, miserable women hate men but can't find one aren't finding a partner because they have convinced themsleves that the very qualities they naturally want in men are the ones they find repulsive.
As a New York Times writer wrote in what she's looking for in a man:
A passionate humanist, a sweet guy, a “good guy.” He tends to signal, in various ways, his exemption from the tainted category of “men,” and it is perfectly understandable that he would wish to do so. It must be mildly embarrassing to be a straight man, and it is incumbent upon each of them to mitigate this embarrassment in a way that feels authentic to him.
All of what she wants isn't what she actually wants. In fact, I'd say that what she's prioritized in a man is more of a virtue signal that gives her status among her ideological peers than something that would actually make her happy. This is why, when she comes across these men who meet these very expectations, she never seems to find satisfaction.
That sweet, passive, caring person who doesn't hold any conservative values and thinks "it's time for a woman president" because he, too, is a staunch feminist, is a man who wouldn't be able to hold her attention long. In fact, I imagine there'd be an element of resentment that would build up because, ultimately, he would lack the traits that would actually make her feel the way nature had intended her to in a relationship.
This "sweet" feminist man wouldn't provide the sense of protection, independence, strength, and provision. The toxic male traits she's convinced herself she hates are the ones that would ultimately make her happy in a man. He's filling in a blank left by the female makeup, which is exactly how nature intended it to be. We are two sides of the same coin.
Yet, these modern feminists will never admit that what they're looking for is the very thing they profess to hate because they've politically brainwashed themselves so badly that they're blind even to themselves. As they become more and more miserable, they come up with excuses as to why it's better to be single and searching than partnered and content. The singleness is, in itself, a virtue signal or a political statement that allows them to explore their own victimhood more deeply.
But it's not a victimhood that's at all real. It's a fantasy they created for themselves, and one that makes them more and more miserable. It's a spiral they can't pull out of, because doing so would be an admittance that they were wrong and their politics don't actually matter that much in the long run.
Ultimately, modern feminism — the man-hating, hyper-political thing that feminism has become — is a denial. Denial of the self, denial of reality, and denial of happiness. It's a lie told to facilitate one thing, and one thing only: a loyal voting bloc for Democrats. There really is no other use for it than that.
