Something we as a society almost don't speak about is the fact that whether we like it or not we are effectively perpetuating misogynism with how the relationships between men and women work.
( for the record, I'm from a Asian country, and this is my opinion and observations, so kindly don't kill me )
Most men who display any sort of non - masculininistic behavior are labelled as ' sissies ' , or ' f*ggots' or even worse terms that I'm not going to list down here.
To speak from experience, as a kid, I liked my little pony quite a lot. I used my pocket money to buy a set of books from the bookstore with my little pony and brought it to school, and immediately my friend didn't want to sir beside me, the teacher shot me a odd look, and both the girls and guys in class proceeded to make fun of me and mock me due to such a thing. It's such a strange thing, and it perpetuates this sort of cycle of people hiding sides of themselves to conform to society, which is a whole other topic.
But if we extrapolate this incident to say highschool or adult hood, the insults become a bit more focused. The insults are now focused on how 'gay' it is to behave in such a manner, which is firstly horrid because of how outrighly homophobic it is, and how awful that concept as a whole is, and also how being gay is being equated with unmanliness. So, now if we were to flip the switch, the concept of manliness is equated to how 'straight' you are. This causes incidents in which you see groups of men speaking regarding women like they are prizes, not people, because of how strangely perpetuated this ideal is. If queerness is unmanly, then straightness is manly, then women are reduced from living breathing people with ideals and thoughts and feelings to statements to prove how 'manly' they are, prizes or status symbols.
This can also be extended to when people have relationship issues, they get called 'unmanly', or 'cucks', etc which just pushes this further? Like some people actively are into this which great for you gang you do you, but also why are relationships, bonds between people who love and cherish one another which may not have worked out for one reason or another, being used as measures of manliness? It leads to this obsessive need to appear as 'manly' as possible, which causes so many effing psychological issues that just become more prevalent as the cycle continues.
And it's such a disgusting cycle where quite frankly nobody wins except for the bigots and dumbasses who think that women and men should actually have such standards of manliness or measures of manliness? Like straight up there's no measure, whether you are a trans man, a gay man, a bi man, a straight man, or any sort of identity, as long as you choose to identify as a man, you are a man.
I don't think it's a tough concept to grasp, and yet people choose to instead perpetuate a disgusting cycle which actively brings down society as a whole instead of realizing their faults.
