The Crisis Over American Manhood Is Really Code for Something Else
The Crisis Over American Manhood Is Really Code for Something Else
Male malaise in the United States goes back to the founders, and it is a preoccupation of elites in particular. They might teach us something about this current wave of manliness panic.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1468096
"Hawley typically cites Big Tech, Hollywood and academia as the unholy trinity of elites that has laid masculinity to waste. He likes to quote the titles of old feminist essays from obscure journals to imply that all college professors and all Democratic politicians hate men. But even as he blames this ruling-class syndicate for depriving men of their ancient reason for being, his own fears sync with ruling-class fears from time immemorial. Elite men are anxious that their wives, workers and children will gain financial and intellectual independence, take their property and flee. And then the unkindest cut: Someone new — a lowly outsider who has been waiting in the wings — will take their place at the top of the social order."
If you have to keep muttering to yourself that, "I'm a manly man", hang fake testicles from your truck, or wear a t-shirt proclaiming yourself an, "alpha male" I'm going to see you as a scared little boy trying to convince yourself more than you are trying to convince others.
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