Josh Hawley says American men are "watching porn and playing video games because their masculinity is being criticized." Mostly by their parents who keep asking, "Josh, when are you going to move out of our basement, stop picking your nose and get a job?" /NSY6sbo2aP- Paul Rudnick November 1, 2021 Hawley’s apparent claim to speak for all men, in the name of a return to a vaguely defined masculinity of old, swiftly became a new subject of ridicule on Twitter. Given his background, he has repeatedly raised eyebrows for railing against elites. He clerked for the supreme court’s chief justice, John Roberts, and later became a law professor.
Hawley is the son of a banker who attended private school before studying at Stanford and Yale.
“They want to define the traditional masculine virtues – things like courage, and independence, and assertiveness – as a danger to society.” “The left want to define traditional masculinity as toxic,” he said. In the address, Hawley said he wanted to discuss “the left’s attempt to give us a world beyond men”. Nonetheless, on Monday his speech was republished by the Federalist, a rightwing outlet. Hawley, 41, did not cite sources for his belief that men were watching pornography more frequently. “While the left may celebrate this decline of men, I for one cannot join them. “Can we be surprised that after years of being told that they are the problem, that their manhood is the problem, more and more men are withdrawing into the enclave of idleness and pornography and video games?” Hawley said. The Donald Trump supporter who notoriously raised a fist in support of a mob outside the US Capitol on 6 January appeared to echo talking points made by the likes of the Proud Boys, a far-right group that opposes feminism and believes men are under attack from liberal elites. Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida, Hawley addressed the issue of “manhood”, which he said was under attack, and called for men to return to traditional masculine roles. The effort to combat toxic masculinity in the US has led men to consume more pornography and play more video games, the Missouri senator Josh Hawley claimed in a speech to a group of Republicans.