While sometimes I am an old-school type of guy (please, try to hide your surprise), I am very much in favor of reducing the societal stereotypes that lead to toxic masculinity - and that goes hand-in-hand with toxic feminity. I was myself a victim of TM more than once. Mom and Dad wanted me to have grandkids but they had never showed me how to socialize. I learned it the hard way as the youngest, smallest kid in the classroom and it was always a stretch for me to talk to people. Learning by experience is a good way to have your ego bruised. It took me a lot of therapy to get to the point that I even COULD open up. (As some of you may know, I am now happily married, so the therapy worked!)
I don't think kids before puberty can actually know with any certainty where their preferences lie, but there is no need to try to force them into a gender-oriented mold for which they might not be ready. I'm not even talking "gay" or "straight" roles - just the ability to not ALWAYS be the strong, silent type who laughs off danger and adversity. John Wayne's "stoic cowboy" or "stoic soldier" roles (or whatever else he played) were NOT good for everyone, but he was the stereotype for my generation.
I firmly believe that it is possible to overdo the "woke" business, but at least SOME of it is very real and totally vital to keep society from flying apart. I can never fully understand the "black condition" but I know that since the time of Malcolm X and the "Blank Panther" movement, blacks have been frustrated. And here we are today with more racial frustration. I have tried to not be a part of the problem though I cannot fully see what they see. I CAN see the frustration, the anger, the impatience. I know that some of it stems from the "paternalism" of the Liberal mind-set, the subtle (or not so subtle) use of unlimited welfare to impose a long-term dependence.
Therefore, when people talk about "woke" politics, I'm not totally in favor, but I am also not totally opposed. We have a lot of garbage to take out but have to try to NOT throw out the baby with the bathwater.