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Hey, asshat, maybe it's the other way around.

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.

  Guardian

Not many men look less alpha than Josh Hawley. But he sure knows his base. Toxic masculinity group.

As well as pornography, Hawley tied the supposed decline in masculinity to issues including unemployment, people marrying at a later age and the preservation of liberty.

Amazing.

“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.

What do you think Hawley would say about the social theory that poor - mostly black and brown - men who fall to drugs and crime are products of their environment? That social conditions are responsible for their behavior? Hmmm?

Hawley, 41, did not cite sources for his belief that men were watching pornography more frequently.

Gee, could that be because he doesn't have one?

In the address, Hawley said he wanted to discuss “the left’s attempt to give us a world beyond men”.

Let me think about that for a while. Sounds like it might have some merit.

“They want to define the traditional masculine virtues – things like courage, and independence, and assertiveness – as a danger to society.”

Which qualities in females he calls feminism and denounces it.

“Boys are increasingly treated like an illness in search of a cure.”

“Hollywood delivers the toxic masculinity theme ad nauseum in television and film,” he said, going on to link traditional masculinity as “vital to self-government”.

“Observers from the ancient Romans to our forefathers identified the manly virtues as indispensable for political liberty,” Hawley said.

Could I see some citations for that, too? Also, he's right about Hollywood delivering toxic masculinity ad nauseum, just not in the way he apparently thinks.

Hawley offered few solutions to the problems he claimed to present. On Monday, he used Twitter to promote his new podcast, co-hosted with his wife.

Should have known there was a grifting angle to it.