Protecting our own is a masculine trait Christyl Rivers

Magnificent Masculinity, Why It Matters To All Of Us

Christyl Rivers, Phd.
5 min readMay 29, 2019

We hear plenty about toxic masculinity. It is easy to blame everything from a misogynistic presidency to the latest mass shooting on toxic masculinity.

In fact, if you find excuses for it, you are obviously not paying attention as life on earth continues to suffer from all that conquest, exploitation, sexism, and racism, relentlessly push us toward in our spiraling death throes down the drain of doom.

That said, (we’re all going to die, in case you missed it) it’s still important to celebrate magnificent masculinity along with our ever-wary attention paid to the destructive kind.

Stand up and be a man

It turns out, much to the dismay of some, that the word toxic is an adjective. It turns out, that like bad skin, or good skin, or red pills, or blue pills, the word before the noun is an adjective. It is something inserted to describe just what kind of masculinity we are talking about.

If you are human being, you more than likely suffer from toxic masculinity. However, just like you may well have good skin on your left thigh, and still have a patch of bad skin on your right thigh, you will experience both.

You also can benefit from the magnificent kind of masculinity.

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Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Ecopsychologist, Writer, Farmer, Defender of reality, and Cat Castle Custodian.