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So I don’t actually understand what is meant by positive masculinity exactly other than I guess the idea that a man can be masculine and also a good person (that is probably not accurate so my apologies). Either way though, I don’t really get the point. Like isn’t any idea that a person should be a certain way because of their gender just inherently toxic to some extent? Am I just misunderstanding completely? Because to me it seems that discussion about things like masculinity and encouraging positive masculinity kind of just end up naming good people who are men as examples of positive masculinity.

Basically, what exactly is the point of differentiating positive and toxic masculinity when it seems the very concepts of masculinity and femininity are based on stereotypes of what men and women should be and this inherently reinforces some form of gender inequality?

I saw a statistic that less than 40 percent of university enrolments in Australia (where I live) in the last few years were men. Is there a particular societal reason for that? My guess is that with more women entering the workforce force fewer of them are taking jobs in trades and so regardless of if men are actually going to university less it will look like they are if you look solely at statistics.

But I am genuinely curious if there are other factors going into this or if I missed something. Im also interested in what sort of an impact this may have since it would presumably mean that we see more female dominated workforces and potentially female dominated governments (I doubt that would be the case because of misogyny and I suspect governments would aim to have roughly equal representation rather than one gender dominating)