Josh Hawley Needs to Learn a Thing or Two About ‘Manhood’
By Jake Auchincloss / Lucas Kunce
In America today, there is no man more obsessed with “manhood” than Sen.
Josh Hawley (R-MO).
And while he’s never been to war, he spends most of his waking hours cosplaying on the battlefields of a
culture war. This includes
accusing men like us, two
Marine veterans, of wanting to redefine things “like courage, and independence, and assertiveness—as a danger to society.”
Thankfully for those of us who have been poorly instructed, Josh’s book,
Manhood, can show us the light. For just $29.99 we can learn the path to achieving Hawley-level masculinity by recreating ourselves in his own image.
While we haven’t read the book, we certainly hope there’s a chapter on the manliness of skittering away from mobs you’ve incited outside the U.S. Capitol.
But however cringe-worthy Hawley’s solutions might be, the problem is real. The data is clear: Working-class men in America are disconnected from the economy, and it hurts.
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Real family values are about providing a healthy alternative to the toxic masculinity Hawley is offering. The disconnect between men and the economy or society isn’t happening because men are failing to achieve some weird idea of what it means to be a man. The core of this crisis is the fact that men without a college degree have seen their relative earnings fall by 30 percent since 1980.
Why? Because Josh Hawley and others like him have blocked advancements for working class Americans at every turn.
The Missouri senator’s got a new book about all things “manly,” but he’s no friend of working-class American males.
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