How to Spot ‘Toxic Femininity’

It’s past time to talk about toxic femininity.

The American upper-middle class has spent decades discussing “toxic masculinity” — a logical if aggravating response to the reality that the majority of human leaders, across most of time, have been business- or warrior-class males. During this same period, at least in post-feminist intellectual culture, the ladies have mostly gotten a break. But, today — 60 long years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the first affirmative action legislation, as movements such as “4B” and “Kill All Men (again)” trend online — it may be time for that to change.