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This. I'm seeing a lot of people in the comments who don't understand the concept of plurality as opposed to majority.
It is weird though:
So the majority does have some toxicity.
But that’s not how “toxic”ism works. Like you’re not a toxic person if you do some toxic things some of the time. You’re a toxic person if you do it all the time or the majority of the time. Everyone says sexuality is a scale, that doesn’t mean you’re straight if you’re not 100% gay. There are some parts of you that do one thing, but you’re to other side of the scale.
I did not state most are toxic. Here:
I've highlighted the word that is doing the heavy lifting here.
The article focused on "atoxic", whithout the very reasonable distinction you are making: atoxic and low toxicity (and perhaps moderate toxicity? Debatable) can both be considered not toxic in general. Which does mean > 50%. But this is implied, not explicitly stated.
No men have to be perfect paragons of virtue or they are toxic pigs. The study is wrong reeeeew. /s
I mean, sure, but they've split up the toxic portion into several groups, and kept non-toxic as one group. So a modal view of this means nothing