If Your Version of Masculinity Is Incompatible with Humanity…You Might Be Doing It Wrong
A grotesque cartoon of Trump as a macho tough guy and a John Wayne-spouting, Mr. Rogers-bashing Daily Wire Host got Mike Kasdan thinking: We need to live a vision of masculinity that is consistent with our humanity. And that ain’t it.
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6 min readJun 7, 2020
Today, I saw a picture of the paunchy, septuagenarian President of the United States that he had shared on this social media feed. But it wasn’t an actual picture of him; it was a photoshopped pastiche of an idealized version of his own head and face attached to six-pack-bearing bare-chested body of Sylvester Stallone as ‘Rocky Balboa,’ a sort of grotesque cartoon mashup of Trump as a macho tough guy:
Oy. It’s been that kind of a week.
Just yesterday, I watched a video clip of a more-than-middle-aged, bespectacled, white male host of The Daily Wire calling…
