The GOP is obsessed with “toxic” and “grotesque” masculinity, according to a recent Washington Post piece that blasted Republicans’ “cartoonlike conception of manliness” and likened them to “little boys playing at war” ignoring “real-world consequences.”
The Monday essay, titled “The GOP: An unending display of toxic masculinity” and penned by Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, began by arguing that Republicans, through their actions, have revealed themselves as obsessed with “toxic masculinity.”
Does anyone remember a national party running on such a naked appeal to masculine insecurity? asks @JRubinBlogger https://t.co/RW1dsPGNub
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“In their head-spinning transition from apologists for Russian President Vladimir Putin to proponents of World War III, Republicans reveal not only their utter lack of principle but also their obsession with toxic masculinity,” she wrote, adding that both “admiring Russian ruthlessness and going to war are features of a party in constant need of masculine affirmation.”
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