Tucker Carlson pulls from an old playbook as he stokes anxiety about a masculinity crisis

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Promotions for “The End of Men,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s forthcoming documentary, lament “The total collapse of testosterone levels in American men.”

Carlson’s central premise is that modern society has devitalized American men. Strength, drive and aggression are no longer in vogue, and Americans, as a result, are become weaker. This, the film implies, has ramifications for the country itself.

The purported remedies – which include tanning one’s testicles – have been easy fodder for critics. But as a historian of physical culture, I see Carlson’s claims as part of a rich heritage of skeptics shouting from the rooftops that American men are becoming devitalized, lazy and effeminate.

Over the past century, these hustlers and politicians have claimed that society is making men weaker. They’ve explained that physical weakness is indicative of moral rot and weakness of character. They have cited recent social problems as evidence. And their rallying cries often have stoked anxieties about some stronger, foreign enemy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-pulls-old-playbook-121439258.html

So sorry that Carlson doesn't feel very manly.

[Botany]

1. I have 2 friends who have fallen for this codswollop

n/t

[relayerbob]

2. He's stroking his own anxiety

[ificandream]

3. He really is a troll.

He goes all over the place to get attention (and ratings).

[Ocelot II]

4. Sounds to me like Carlson should be spending more time tanning his sack.

I'd hate to see him become devitalized, lazy and effeminate.

[grumpyduck]

5. I just find it amazing that

so many people listen to this asshole and believe his bullshit.

What was that line from Blazing Saddles? "They're morons."

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

8. He rode a Blazing Saddle!

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[grumpyduck]

9. Thank you!

[Midnight Writer]

6. I recall The Promise Keepers from a few years back.

God put men in charge of their wives and children, and wives and children want men, strong masculine men, to control them.

Yet they call liberals "groomers".

Go figure.

[usonian]

7. Takes one to know one. nt

[keep_left]

10. The alt-right idiots have a peculiar bee in their bonnet about this...

...they're constantly complaining about assaults on their masculinity from "SJWs", "purple-haired lesbian HR managers", and their favorite catchall term, "degeneracy". Oh, yes, almost forgot, they're extremely concerned about "soy" and the "soyboys" that it creates. Tucker as usual is plagiarizing a cultural stream that's already pretty much played out on the internet. Assholes like Roosh V and Nick Fuentes were plumbing these depths a couple years ago (in Roosh V's case, even longer ago than that).