Thanks, but actually, that's not true. It was a term coined by a man and it does describe a real issue where the demands of patriarchy on men is detrimental to both them and to women. It's a dynamic that does lead to injury and death for men, as evidence by the high levels of substance abuse, depression, and suicide that are direct results of these "man box" demands on them - and it's pretty unpleasant for women as well. It’s a factor in the statistic that half of all murdered women are killed by current or former domestic partners.
And, because the term wasn't used precisely, it got diluted - although mostly by men who took it as an attack on maleness rather than a much-needed indictment of very particular aspects of hyper-masculinity that are indeed destructive.
"The term originated in the 1980s as part of the mythopoetic men’s movement but as it gained wider usage, came to refer to potentially destructive norms of traditional masculinity.
According to the sociologist Michael Flood, these include “expectations that boys and men must be active, aggressive, tough, daring, and dominant”."
This becomes an issue when men can't be considered proper males or "real men" unless they behave this way all of the time, and to the exclusion of anything that is considered the least bit "feminine" such as cooperative, nurturing, intuitive, etc. Yeah, a lot of women are pretty sick of the way these attitudes and behaviors have affected them, and aren't shy about saying it, but in many ways this stuff hurts men just as much - which is why it came out of a men's movement.
And, the term has become too inflammatory to really be useful any more - for either men or women but masculine norms can be pretty darn harmful — according to men themselves.
