> the leftist embrace of the "toxic masculinity" concept turned off a generation of young men

Perhaps. It looks more like there is a section of America's left that nobs onto decent ideas and turns it into a No True Scotsmen loyalty test. It's not about the issue. It's about the participants feeling like they're fighting, the cause be damned. This group is extremely adept at social media, though, which means the decent idea gets drowned out by the stupid one. Which the opposition to the decent idea is a-okay with, because it will reliably tank the whole project.

Immigration reform? Abolish ICE. Criminal justice reform? Defund the police and abolish prisons. Palestinian nationhood? From the river to the sea, also terrorism is fine.

For masculinity, there was a problem. But that element turned it into a nauseating game of language policing, cancelling and--in the end--overt and proud sexism against men. 'Toxic masculinity' wasn't the problem per se, the expansion of toxicity to all masculinity was the issue.

Well, part of a generation of young men. But those young men, being toxic and masculine, decided to throw a temper and break the government, while the part of the generation who saw the effects of toxic masculininty and agreed it was a problem watched on in horror.