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I don't think I have come across a more compelling and indicting exposition on the crisis of manhood in our culture than this somewhat underground lecture by exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger that I recently stumbled across. Fr. Ripperger uses a Thomistic philosophical framework to expound upon the four forms of effeminacy in men today, using the Fall in Genesis as the backdrop for explaining just what happened to us and what it means to be a man. He is clear, he is concise, and he is completely unforgiving. He has no use or time for political correctness in diagnosing this...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is done with "culturally neutered" elements of corporate America and is embracing "masculine energy" as DEI programs falter. It's one thing to say we want to be kind of like welcoming and make a good environment for everyone and I think it’s another to basically say that ‘masculinity is bad,’ and I just think we kind of swung culturally to that part of the – the kind of – the spectrum," Zuckerberg said during his recent interview with Joe Rogan. Zuckerberg, who grew up with only sisters and now has only daughters, told Rogan that he...

In a post-election jeremiad at Slate, Jill Filipovic opined that President-elect Donald Trump rode to victory on a “particular kind of masculine identity” that “imperils men and women alike.” Ms. Filipovic is right about the first point and wrong about the second. Men have risen: young men and old men, as well as men of all races. Women also voted for Mr. Trump in unexpected numbers, but commentators on the left and right seem to agree that men — especially young men — are the ones who propelled Mr. Trump into the White House, and his allies into Senate and...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez touted First Gentleman Doug Emhoff as the ideal representation of masculinity at a Las Vegas campaign event for his wife Kamala Harris on Wednesday. “He’s not afraid to embody and pass on these values of security and this idea that you can, you can let your girl shine,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told a room full of students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to the Daily Mail. “And he embodies that really well. We should all be really, really proud of him.” The “squad” member praised Emhoff’s example of masculinity less than a week after a...

Former Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley on Tuesday urged former President Donald Trump to scale back his "bromance and "masculinity" rhetoric in the last week of the presidential election, because he risks alienating female voters. Haley, who challenged Trump for the Republican nomination earlier this year, previously urged the former president to keep his criticism about Vice President Kamala Harris on her policies instead of personal. Haley endorsed Trump this summer after she suspended her own presidential campaign.

...Unlike other recent Republican presidential nominees, Donald Trump is making young men a central focus of his campaign. If effective, his effort could peel enough away from the Democratic Party to transform the country’s electoral math for years to come. Recent data from the Harvard Youth Poll ... for the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, reveals ... the share of young men identifying as registered Democrats has dropped by seven percentage points, while those identifying as Republicans have increased by seven points — a net shift of 14 points in just four years. Young women, during the same period,...

by Torrance Stephens, PhDOver the past several years, sex has become more politicized than ever before. This effort has been mainly due to rhetoric from the progressive left. From pronouns to biological men competing against women in sports to a person who can say they are a man or a woman and promote that we should believe them. There is also the liberal attack on men in general, on so-called toxic masculinity, misogyny, and the patriarchy. Now the Democrat party is upset they are losing the vote of men, black men in particular. The party that nominated a Supreme Court...

A new video promoting Vice President Kamala Harris for president is making a splash as it appeals to men by redefining masculinity in 'cringey' terms. The video features various men declaring their interest in 'manly clichés' like bears, drinking bourbon, eating steaks, fixing cars, and lifting weights. But it goes on to say only 'man enough' men will endorse a woman for president - like Kamala Harris - sparking social media criticism from users calling it a 'train wreck.'

Democratic strategist Aisha Mills claimed Friday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that the November elections are between former President Donald Trump’s “toxic masculinity” and Democrats’ tender “holistic sense of manhood.” Mills said, “Just speaking to someone who does not identify as a man, I have to say that stepping back, the thing that’s on display with this entire presidential campaign is a tale of two types of masculinity generally, whether black masculinity or otherwise. It is really about masculinity. What you see on one side is this toxic masculinity that is very much about patriarchal, it’s about bullying, it’s about locker...

MSNBC host Jen Psaki said Sunday on “Inside” that second gentleman Doug Emhoff had “reshaped the perception of masculinity.” Psaki said, “There has also been an important part, an interesting part about how people have talked about your role, how it has reshaped the perception of masculinity. I’m not sure you planned on that, but you are an incredibly supportive spouse. Has that been an evolution for you? Do you think that’s part of the role you might play as First gentleman?” Emhoff said, “It’s funny, I have started to think a lot about this. I have always been like...

Wednesday, during MSNBC’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention, MSNBC host Joy Reid touted how the “men of the Democratic Party” were portraying themselves, which she called a “21st century masculinity.” Reid’s remarks following Democrat vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) speech at the convention were very similar to those of CNN’s Dana Bash, who relayed a similar sentiment around the same time. “[I]t’s important for him as the football coach to be the faculty partner of the LGBTQ gay-straight alliance,” Reid said. “That’s something important for me to do because if a coach is doing it, it’s going to...

SNIP I’ve never been a macho kind of man. To me, our biggest responsibility as humans is to look after each other. Men have been given places of privilege in society, so when people talk about being a man, to me that means: what do you use your privilege for? I worked at a pirate radio station in Houston, and we helped with emergency efforts during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001. For me, manhood is all about using your energy to make life better for the person next to you. But I think that Trump appeals to a perceived loss...

Father we lift up the young men of our nation to You for no matter their race, creed, color, family origin, life experiences or socioeconomic background, they need You. For those who have no hope, help them to understand that there is a glorious hope they can have in Christ Jesus. For those who feel unloved, let them know that you love them enough to have sent Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to die for them that they may have a relationship with You. For those who have no father, or an absent father, help them to know that...

U.S. - As society becomes increasingly dominated by nerds, hipsters, and computer programmers, people have fixated on what they think is our biggest problem: masculinity. "It's just toxic and causes nothing but problems," said Elisha Mcewen, a vegan activist and no threat whatsoever to spiders or tight jar lids. "I was sharing my feelings on masculinity with other men in my drum circle, and we all agreed that if we ever encountered masculinity, we would run far away." Masculinity is said to have in the past been the cause of such things as violence, war, bullying, defeating the Nazis,...

Holding the view that masculinity negatively impacts one’s behavior is associated with lower mental well-being, according to a new study of more than 4,000 men. The findings shed light on the relationship between societal perceptions of masculinity and individual mental health, challenging previous notions that masculine attitudes are inherently harmful or detrimental. The study was published in the International Journal of Health Sciences.For decades, masculinity has been a topic of both public and academic debate. Historically, traits like being active, dominant, and self-contained were synonymous with masculinity. However, from the 1980s, there was a notable shift. Masculinity began to be...

Many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other than Donald Trump to run for President in 2024. But this judgment requires an assessment of Trump’s vices and virtues in the context of our current political and cultural circumstances, as well as an assessment of other prospective Republican presidential candidates. Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Claremont Institute, explains Trump's Virtues.

After MeToo, a regressive vision of masculinity became increasingly popular. Here’s a guide.More than five years ago, the MeToo movement exploded and our culture shifted. But what actually changed? This project seeks to reexamine the era by asking how it will alter the lives of the next generation. One of the consequences of the revelations that many prominent men behaved poorly in private was a very public effort to grapple with the whole concept of masculinity. Boys have long been mired in a well-publicized and seemingly endless “crisis.” But MeToo raised another question: Who would speak to these men? Over...

In an Instagram post on Thursday, Green Beret combat veteran and dad of three Nick Freitas shared with his followers a 2017 WRTV Indianapolis interview with Jack Reynolds, a pedophile who targeted children in the 1980s and spent 12 years in prison for it. In the interview, Reynolds was asked what “characteristics” he “looked for in children before molesting them.” Reynolds responded by saying it was a child’s family that mattered more than the actual child. “If I thought the father was a threat, I would not approach the child,” he said. Freitas said this revelation means a few things...

America, your 45th President needs you to stand up for what is right. During the golden era of The Greatest Generation, a work of art called The Philadelphia Story was created. When Katharine Hepburn said, "I was guilty straight off until I was proven innocent." Cary Grant commented, "Downright unAmerican if you ask me." In the modern world of suffocating political correctness, far too many men are now "guilty straight off" In 2018 President Trump described this modern phenomenon by saying, " My whole life I have heard you are innocent until proven guilty. But now you are guilty until.proven...

As American men continue to struggle, second gentleman Douglas Emhoff wants to use his platform to denounce so-called toxic masculinity. Emhoff this past week told MSNBC that there’s too much “toxicity” in masculinity these days, an issue he’s spent “a lot” of time thinking about. “There’s too much of toxicity — masculine toxicity out there, and we’ve kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine,” the 58-year-old said. “You’ve got this trope out there where you have to be tough, and angry, and lash out to be strong,” Emhoff continued. “I think...