Toxic masculinity may have been the ultimate villain of the 2010s. It underscored minor sex-based social transgressions — remember the great “manspreading” crisis (2014–2017) and its relative, the “mansplaining” scare? — and was a factor in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes, which prompted the #MeToo movement.

Finally, we have the preferred, softer substitute: positive masculinity. It lives, according to Newsweek’s Alyce Collins, in the form of one Timothy James Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate and foil to socially conservative Republican men.