What’s Behind Right-Wing Support for “Male Feminist” Justin Baldoni
Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2025-01-24 21:00
Article here. Excerpt:
'Justin Baldoni would seem to be a bogeyman for America’s right wing. He broke out as a heartthrob on the satirical telenovela Jane the Virgin, known for its progressive themes, and then branded himself as one of the country’s foremost male feminists on his Man Enough podcast, the tagline for which was “undefining masculinity.”
But after Blake Lively, who starred opposite him in his directorial hit It Ends with Us, alleged workplace mistreatment including sexual harassment, he’s been unyoked from “woke.” In fact, he’s become an unexpected new conservative cause celebre as a growing contingent of commentators take his side.'
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