Real Men Should Reject Democrats Because the Left and Hollywood Demonize Traditional Masculinity
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The Gist
The author says Hollywood and the political left look down on traditional manly men, ignoring or mocking real heroes like a father who stopped a school shooter. He argues that men who value those traits should vote against Democrats in the coming election.
Conclusion
Men who value traditional masculinity should vote against the Democrats in the upcoming election, because the Democratic Party and its cultural allies are hostile to manly virtues, while real-world male heroism and the shift of young men away from the party show the left's anti-masculine crusade is absurd and failing.
Premises
- Hollywood and left-leaning entertainment actively denigrate traditional masculinity, for example by depicting a white male superhero as a disgraced loser killed by his female partner, who goes unpunished.
- Real-world male heroism, such as a blue-collar white father using his licensed gun to stop a school shooter, contradicts the left's portrayal of masculinity and is ignored by an industry unable to spin it into an anti-male, anti-gun narrative.
- Liberal media and entertainment figures react with outrage to a non-woke male comedian's joke about women, showing hostility to the behavior and humor of ordinary men, even though that comedian has a huge, young, overwhelmingly male audience.
- Young men are abandoning the Democratic Party, suggesting that the party's cultural stance alienates the demographic it disdains.
- Prominent establishment figures like the Bush family drift toward left-wing, pro-abortion, anti-gun, open-border Democrats, showing that the Democratic side is aligned with positions that conflict with traditional male values.
Assumptions
- Traditional masculinity (toughness, gun ownership, protector role, blunt humor) is a coherent set of virtues that 'real men' share.
- Hollywood's creative choices and a few celebrity reactions are representative of the Democratic Party as a whole.
- The choices of studios not to adapt a specific news story prove ideological bias rather than commercial, legal, or taste considerations.
- Voting preferences should be driven by cultural treatment of masculinity rather than policy outcomes.
- Opposition to Republican positions (guns, abortion, immigration) is incompatible with being a 'real man'.
- Shifts in the vote among young men are caused by cultural grievances about masculinity.