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The least important question in America is what this dude is “as a man.”
nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/…
nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/…
He’s a union blue collar worker with a disabled child who voted for an anti-union billionaire promising to destroy healthcare because the billionaire screamed overtly racist rants about Mexico. It’s not his manhood he should be questioning.
Some people are defending this article by saying that it’s good for the @nytimes to interrogate blue collar masculinity. But the article doesn’t do anything of the sort. It fails to raise questions even when they’re being begged by the narrative.
Some questions the Times could’ve addressed, but chose to ignore:
1.: Can lower-income people still have white privilege?
1.: Can lower-income people still have white privilege?
2. Why do white voters give our first and only black president so little credit for saving hundreds of thousands of blue-collar jobs?
3. How much of Trump’s victory was rooted in the male urge, conscious or unconscious, to violently “put women in their place”?
4. What could account for the lack of empathy among white male Trump voters for...every other voting demographic?
The problem isn’t that white male blue-collar Trump voters continue to be covered to death by @nytimes and other major media. It’s that the coverage is so shallow, unquestioning and feckless. Never ask the right questions, you’ll never learn anything new.
And yes: every single one of these questions is tied directly into the larger issue of the roots of toxic masculinity.
