Despite the Kamala Harris presidential campaign’s desperate appeal to white male voters with camouflage trucker hats, CNN’s Dana Bash characterized Democrats as an estrogen-fueled political movement uncomfortable with traditional traits of masculinity.
Doug Emhoff and Vice-Presidential nominee Tim Walz, Bash said Thursday at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), represent the party’s effort to “put forward male figures” who “can speak to men out there who might not be the testosterone-laden, gun-toting type of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan.”
“In addition,” Bash said, the party’s representation of masculinity intends to send the message that “it’s okay in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who supports a woman.”
Her claim includes the implicit smear that conservative men are uncomfortable with Kamala Harris because she’s a woman, and not because she’s a far-left California leftist eager to capitalize on identity politics to produce conformity, a common negative feminine behavior. Her vice-presidential pick’s embrace of the term “weird” similarly reeks of toxic femininity decades after he backed out of deploying to Iraq and then began campaigning on his military service.
Calling people “weird” is such feminine behavior. Textbook sex difference: Men engage in open conflict; women police conformity. It’s honestly disorienting to hear male politicians use the line.
— Helen Andrews (@herandrews) July 29, 2024
Featuring Hulk Hogan at Republicans’ nominating convention in July offended leftists determined to redefine masculinity as always negative. David French penned a column in The New York Times complaining about
