This article could not be more wrong.
What I found researching my book is that Trump actually exhibits all the traits these insecure men do: cruelty, boasting, misogyny.
Hypermasculinity is about hiding insecurity by overcompensating, like these men, like Trump.
What I found researching my book is that Trump actually exhibits all the traits these insecure men do: cruelty, boasting, misogyny.
Hypermasculinity is about hiding insecurity by overcompensating, like these men, like Trump.
What the author gets embarrassingly wrong is that the American idea of "masculinity" isn't real. It's a performance. The men the author is talking about aren't actually strong, they're terribly insecure and performing a role.
This is a really, really terrible article.
This is a really, really terrible article.
The article actually reinforces problematic stereotypes that created male insecurity in the first place and led many of them to vote for Trump.
It just perpetuates the same myths these people have tried to live by and failed, because that traditional masculinity is a fraud.
It just perpetuates the same myths these people have tried to live by and failed, because that traditional masculinity is a fraud.
Trump is the embodiment of the "masculinity" this article is pushing.
His cruelty is a projected strength when he's insecure.
His boasting is about making himself sound powerful.
Many of us have men in our lives who sound and act like Trump and believe themselves masculine.
His cruelty is a projected strength when he's insecure.
His boasting is about making himself sound powerful.
Many of us have men in our lives who sound and act like Trump and believe themselves masculine.
Anyway, just an embarrassment of an article that doesn't get to anything even approaching an actual point and actually serves to muddy the water and damn men to unhealthy lives that will also lead to them voting for more Trumps.
Really, really sad piece of writing.
Really, really sad piece of writing.
If you want to get away from Trump, get past this crisis, we have to dismantle dangerous and stupid notions like masculinity and racial supremacy, not reinforce them.
These people are living in myths that distort reality and endanger us. Reject this nonsense out of hand.
These people are living in myths that distort reality and endanger us. Reject this nonsense out of hand.
Also, while we're at it, I could do without anymore of these articles by wealthy people telling people who grew up poor what they think about them.
Leave it to the rest of us who grew up in this stuff to sort it out and save your judgments and diagnoses for the country club.
Leave it to the rest of us who grew up in this stuff to sort it out and save your judgments and diagnoses for the country club.
Maybe, just maybe, the publications and networks should make some room for people who didn't grow up wealthy or connected to explain what's going on with the country, because I can tell you, all this desperate reporting trying to catch up is way, way, WAY off base and problematic
