Yea, There's Not Consensus On "Healthy" Masculinity Either

Jason Kelce? Tim Walz? Jeffrey Gartner? All have their flaws, fam. And while we're quick to label men as toxic, we haven't really defined the other side.

Above is Jason Kelce acting the fool dancing about 30 minutes before Monday Night Countdown started a few days ago, which went viral, because the Kelces are ruling pop culture these days. Once it went viral, a few people (I believe you’d call them “trolls”) attacked Kelce for maybe being drunk, for being a man-child, for being immature, “how is this guy a father of three girls,” etc.

I saw some of that stuff roll in, and Kelce subsequently address it, and thought: “Hmm, that’s weird. I thought we had put Jason and Travis in the ‘healthy masculinity’ bucket.” I think after that Bills-Chiefs Divisional Game last January, we had a collective love affair with him.

This all begs a question: we seem to know what “toxic” masculinity is (although the goalposts can move sometimes on what that means), but have we actually defined what “healthy” masculinity would look like, for both women and men?