Xmastime on Men

I'd assume my definition of what a "man" is has changed over the course of my many years, with the only constant being my not really giving a shit, but one thing I've noticed from years of observation is how "manly" Republican men want you to think they are despite the fact that their Toddler King is the biggest fucking pussy ever put on this Earth, and the biggest loudmouths about this shit (Josh Hawley, for instance) are generally the most pussy-fied ones as well. Their cult following of Trump is so crazy that besides wearing tampons on their ears for him, over the years I've seen so many Republican men cuckold themselves so badly in the name of Trump's "manliness" that they turned into weird Bill Brasky-style side characters basically begging Trump to come fuck their wives for them. Meanwhile of course I'm accused of being some sort of pink-fairy hippy because I don't think you need to shoot puppies to show your inherent toughness.

So I agree with David Frum that when it comes to masculinity, Republicans have become everything they once accused Democrats of being:

Republicans have become full-on hysterics, screaming about voting machines and Hunter Biden and drag queens while trying to impeach Kamala Harris for … being female while on duty, or something. John Adams once said of George Washington that he had “the gift of silence.” I wish some Republican men had it. My ears have had to endure GOP officials who cannot stop talking—the streams of gibberish from Trump, the self-contradicting sophism of Lindsey Graham, the babbling of the insufferable Vivek Ramaswamy.

I also know this: The real men are not the ones who have to keep crowing about manliness and putting down women. Real men serve their nation, their community, and their family, and unlike Trump and his elected Republican coterie, they do it without whining or demanding credit.

Of course it's fun to make fun of their deluded sense of "manhood", and their little-dick fantasies of springing out out of bed to blow away a burglar & save their families has definitely led to even more of an explosion of guns that we normally would have living in a gun-obsessed country. But there's also something very obvious about why they always go back to guys like Clint Eastwood, Robert Mitchum or John Wayne as their model for manliness...as in, guys who dressed up & pretended to be tough whenever there was a camera pointing at them without the pesky little need of actually having to BE tough.