Insightful article! Men who display this kind of toxic masculinity IMHO are extremely insecure and afraid that if they show any amount of empathy or compassion, they will be labeled as weak. There's a lot of pressure in society, and globally for that matter, thanks to patriarchy, for men to conform to a very limited range of behaviors and explains a lot of the homophobia they exhibit. The violence directed at trans women is an extreme manifestation of this. Hopefully, we're moving toward a time when men give themselves permission (and are given permission by society at large) to exhibit more "yin" traits without being labeled weak, feminine (as if that's a bad thing), or "not a REAL man." There's currently way too much yang out there.