Our society has a masculinity shortage—not a surplus
In popular thinking, “toxic” is a binary, either-or reality. Either that person is toxic or he isn’t. This chemical in potato chips is toxic or it isn’t. Those emotions are either toxic or they aren’t. But this perspective fails to understand the reality of toxicity. “The dose makes the poison” goes the saying from 15th-century Swiss physician Paracelsus. Consuming one nanogram of fentanyl will never kill you, but drinking two gallons of water in one sitting might. Too much of anything can prove to be “toxic.”
