JD Vance's toxic take on masculinity is as dangerous as it is absurd
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- At the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, Vice President JD Vance delivered what can only be described as a desperate, groveling ode to Donald Trump, arguing that the president is a model of masculinity.
Vance claimed that American culture is trying to “turn everybody into androgynous idiots,” suppressing what makes men men. And according to him, Trump — who has a long history of racist, sexist and outright vile rhetoric — is somehow the antidote to this alleged crisis of manhood.
But Vance’s message wasn’t really about empowering young men. It was about selling them a toxic, warped version of masculinity — one rooted in cruelty, recklessness and a complete disregard for the impact of one’s words and actions. It’s not an attempt to make men stronger or more confident. It’s an attempt to justify bad behavior, to excuse bigotry and to frame even the most basic social accountability as an attack on manhood itself.
And that is shameful.
What Vance and others like him are pushing is often referred to as toxic masculinity. It’s a model that says the only way to be a “real man” is to dominate others, to suppress vulnerability and to never, under any circumstances, admit fault. It equates masculinity with power over people, rather than power with them.
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