Tucker Carlson and the Crisis of Masculinity:

[tblue37]

Tucker Carlson and the Crisis of Masculinity

Tucker Carlson’s foray into testicle toasting is only the latest (and possibly most amusing) example of the right-wing’s masculinity obsession. The manliness theme keeps reappearing. Trump’s strutting tough talk was imbibed greedily by fans eager for affirmation of the manly virtues. At every rally, followers sported posters superimposing Trump’s face on an Arnold Swarzenneger-type body. “He fights!” they would exult.

Trump and the subordinate members of his pack didn’t invent this—insecure masculinity is an old phenomenon.

In the early years of the 20th century, Europe experienced something of a masculinity crisis. Popular writers, physicians, and journalists began to fret that young Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Germans had become soft after so many uninterrupted years of peace. In her magisterial history of the period, The War That Ended Peace, Margaret MacMillan traced the currents that coursed through European society in the years before the Great War. Francois Coppee, a French nationalist, worried that “Frenchmen are degenerating . . . too absorbed in the race for enjoyment and luxury to retain that grand subordination of self to great causes which has been the historic glory of the French character.” In Great Britain, General Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in part because he feared the emasculation of England’s youth. “One cause which contributed to the downfall of Rome,” he cautioned, “was the fact that soldiers fell away from the standard of their forefathers in bodily strength.” The same might befall the British Empire, he feared, if its boys were not trained in masculine habits. A Hungarian writer popular throughout the continent warned that European society was “marching to its certain ruin because it is too worn out and flaccid to perform great tasks.”

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[Ray Bruns]

1. "he feared, if its boys were not trained in masculine habits."

Translation: If we don't brainwash boys into toxic masculinity, who will provide the cannon fodder for the next war?

[2naSalit]

2. +1

[House of Roberts]

3. It's only a crisis for Cucker because he doesn't have it.

As for the rest of the ReichWing males, some have it, and some don't, but all of them are dissatisfied with their own amount of it.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. To the fascist, life is war and the fascist is raised to be a hero in fight against some...

contrived racial nemesis who is being scapegoated for the fascists' own misfortune.

You aren't manly or special if someone is not out to get you.

[lame54]

5. Far Right Club

[jfz9580m]

11. Also Far From Bright Club! nt

[Scrivener7]

6. It has been mansplained to me right here on DU, though, that the use of

the term "toxic masculinity," the acknowledgment of its existence, is immoral.

Yep. That's what the guy on DU said. "Immoral."

Idiots suffering from insecure masculinity are everywhere.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. Tuckums

wouldn't know "masculine" if it came up and kicked him in the balls.

One wonders if the kids are really his. Kind of like one wonders about Janky Vanky's.

[MagickMuffin]

8. Poor things can't keep (it) up

Does Tucker Carlson hang out in the men's locker rooms to check everyone's manhood?


Asking for a male friend

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Tucker's obsession with masculinity

[Dirty Socialist]

10. (((FASCISM ALERT)))

Fucker’s scree is full of Fascist visuals. The right wing has gone jack booted.

[Trueblue1968]

12. testicle roasting