How Chuck Norris Helped Create the Manosphere

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'But any dissection of Norris also needs to size up his effect on the culture of masculinity. Walker helped augur an ethos of aggrieved righteousness that would soon dominate everything from country music to Christian movies and, more toxically, would forerun the manosphere with its aggro-flouting of a perceived feminization of American society. “If I want your opinion, I’ll beat it out of you,” Norris would say on the show. It was a funny quip. It also traces a line straight to Andrew Tate.

Through this lens, then, the year 2026 hardly seems possible without Norris. He both encouraged all of us to contribute culturally and then suggested the kind of chippy masculinity that might comprise those contributions.

In recent years, it has been easy to forget just how foreign some of these concepts were until Chuck Norris came along. But his death has stirred some reminders. As it inevitably must. In his movies, Chuck Norris was neglected, derided, marginalized. But he always had the last kill.'