When Both Parties Try to Out-Macho Each Other

Article here. Utter bullshit. Both parties THINK they can appeal to men through old-school machismo. They'd rather do that than take up actual men's issues. Excerpt:

'The MAGA movement has fully embraced masculinism, which The Atlantic’s staff writer Helen Lewis defines in her cover story this month as “a movement to fight back against the advances of feminism and reassert the primacy of men.” Democrats have a more complicated relationship with machismo. After the last presidential election, when Donald Trump made inroads with even young men of color, some Democrats began wondering whether their party did indeed have a man problem. This campaign season, one Democratic candidate who seems to be addressing that concern is Graham Platner, an oyster-farming combat veteran.

After he won his primary in Maine this week, Platner became key to the party’s chances of taking over the Senate. But Platner’s brand of masculinity does not come without its issues. In a report last week in The New York Times, several women who were romantically involved with Platner described “toxic” relationships; one described him as rough. Platner’s campaign strongly disputed any claims of physical intimidation or altercation.
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This “10,000 ways to imply he’s fay” strategy grows out of a robust ideology currently dominating the MAGA movement: “masculinism,” which Helen defines in her story as a movement to fight back against the advances of feminism and reassert the primacy of men.

Now, the Democrats are not exactly denying they have a macho problem. Talarico’s campaign, for example, has recently circulated a photo of him gnawing on a piece of meat. And they’ve put forth one prominent candidate they think does check the “masculine” box: Graham Platner, who won the party’s primary in Maine this week, and whose victory is critical to Democrats taking back the Senate but whose ex-girlfriends have said his brand of masculinity was toxic.'