But what does it mean to be manly? And do Republicans somehow have a monopoly on saying what counts as manly, and what doesn't?
In the spirit of having great fun at the expense of the Republicans and Gov. Christie, Charles Blow says, "The problem with having your message powered by machismo is that it reveals what undergirds such a stance: misogyny and chauvinism."
In the spirit of having great fun at the expense of Republicans and Gov. Christie, Charles Blow says, "The Republican Party is in danger of becoming a man cave of cavemen and the women who can abide them."
Now, in the spirit of having great fun at the expense of Republicans and Gov. Christie, I would correct Charles Blow's sentence by deleting the words "is in danger of becoming" and adding the words "has become."
However, fun aside, conservatives in the Republican Party are reactionaries. Unfortunately, their masculine mystique is loaded with sexist and racist views. As a result, for decades now, they have been reactionaries to the black civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and to the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s -- and especially to the political correctness that has emerged in subsequent decades.
THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE OF WHITE MEN IN THE 1950S
Many highly vocal Republican men and certain Republican women have a culturally conditioned sense of masculinity that has become old-fashioned. Our sense of masculinity is a social construct. Their social construct of tough-talking masculinity has been deeply influenced by John Wayne movies and other Hollywood movies.
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