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I think it tends to manifest in different ways depending on who is expressing the opinion. Some find the marriage boring, but others take it too far and bash Lois herself for all the storytelling problems and insist Clark should be with a more "worthy" woman and/or sleep around a lot. Then there is the belief that he should be the strongest in physical stats and that should manifest as him owning his teammates in battle to assert his dominance or whatever. When most reasonable fans who want Clark to live up to his legend as the strongest still expect other heroes to be close and surpass him in other areas. Back in the Bronze age he was the strongest and didn't have anything to prove, so it's not like they pitted heroes against each other as much.

Stuff like the fight in the JL movie (either version) may seem cathartic to Superman fans on the surface, but it was totally unnecessary and shallow. Yes, if he was unleashed that's pretty much how a fight between him and the parties present (excluding Wonder Woman, who got nerfed) would go down, but it's just empty posturing that didn't flesh him out as a character. It pretty much was "Superman has value because he can kick everyone's ass, including the world's most powerful woman." That's not helpful to him or anyone.

Overall though, I think the toxic masculinity types tend to favor Frank Miller-flavored versions of Batman over Superman (and other versions of Batman).
Toxic masculinity types worship Batman despite him being a failure of a human being and teammate who makes everything worse and mistreats his family. In their mind he's a self made man(ignoring that he was born with a silver spoon) and doesn't compromise(ignoring his slavish refusal to put down the Joker has caused lots of death and carnage).