Men who cry are perceived as weak and irresponsible. When they express their emotions, they are shut out for behaving like a woman. Any sort of vulnerability is not accepted among men and is labelled as a feminine trait.

The King of Toxic Masculinity, Andrew Tate, is yet again in the news, of course, for all wrong reasons. He has been detained in Romania on human trafficking, rape, and organised crime charges.

He has gone on record to say that women are like children, a man’s property, a liability, corrupted by sex, lazy and stupid.

The term “toxic masculinity” was obscure in the 1990s and early 2000s. But since around 2015, it has become pervasive in discussions of men and gender.

Women are always forced to control their anger, pain, disappointment and even happiness. But society turns a blind eye when a man preserves his fragile ego with the help of anger and violence.

Indian cinemas should take an active role in purging the society of this social menace known as patriarchy.

Women face physical and mental abuse because we as a society have failed to condition men to take rejection in the right spirit and move on in life.

Many men feel it is okay to hit a woman or express anger violently, especially if she has “wronged” them.

Let us all understand that housework is a life skill. It is something to be ashamed of. If you can’t even fill your stomach and clean your mess, how will you survive in the world as a human?

‘No’ is NOT a challenge or an invite. It simply means that I am not interested.