Obviously, some men’s self esteem is through the floor. Articles like this one are actively making it worse and profiting on the misery.
Are men not living up to certain standards
You see that’s part of the problem. You think there’s some “man standard” you have to live up to, there isn’t, if you want to paint your nails that doesn’t make you any less a man. Here’s the man standard, the actual man standard:
If you’re a man and you do X, then men do X.
That’s it. Men who aren’t insecure about their masculinity don’t give a shit what an article says, they’re going to do what they want anyways, be like them.
After that, the problems become bigger than the stated scope of this community.