In the eight years since Love Island first crashed onto our screens like a reality TV wrecking ball, it’s become a cliche to describe it as “toxic”. “Toxic relationships”. “Toxic bullying”. Most of ...

THE NUMBER OF terms and identities under the LGBTQ+ umbrella is ever-growing, allowing more and more people to describe their sexuality with words that make sense to them. One word you may not have ...

The kind of femininity that Stanford University accepts and encourages is very masculine. Admittedly, this is a meaningless statement, at least at a first glance: Aren’t femininity and masculinity ...

Recently, I talked with a former male student of mine who had been hearing and reading more about “toxic masculinity”: what it is, how it can be expressed and its implications and consequences.

We hear a considerable amount about toxic masculinity but far less about toxic femininity, and some doubt that it exists. First, a definition: Women expressing stereotypically “feminine” traits such ...

As campaigns against “toxic” manhood continue in this #MeToo era, few people talk about “toxic” femininity. Unfortunately, this is because the poison of modern-day feminism has convinced a malleable ...

The expectations of strong women in today's society are shifting... and they're shifting fast. We are supposed to be fierce in the board room, sexy in the bedroom, chaste and gentle mothers, and ...