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We’re all familiar with toxic masculinity. Many of us know at least one person who embodies some of its creepy characteristics and all of us can conjure up images of the 90s jock with frosted tips spending his time engaging in bullying, sexual harassment and “locker-room talk”. But what about its eyelash-batting female counterpart — toxic femininity? 

Before we get into toxic femininity, its examples, and why it’s so toxic, I want to be clear about something — femininity in of itself is not inherently bad. Femininity becomes problematic when gender stereotypes are imposed on women, forcing them to conform to norms that are harmful to everyone