It is no secret that the Democratic Party has a problem with male voters. If the polls are to be believed, any hope the party has of winning the presidential election relies on appealing to women at the expense of men.
But, perhaps concerned that Vice President Kamala Harris’s lack of appeal to men may prove fatal in the presidential election, the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party are out to redefine what it means to be masculine, and the newly arrived definition is effectively the male version of stay in the kitchen.
In her latest cringeworthy interview as an MSNBC commentator, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki shares the gospel of new masculinity by praising second gentleman Doug Emhoff for “reshaping the perception of masculinity” by being “a supportive spouse.”
The interview is incredibly uncomfortable to watch, largely due to Emhoff’s awkward smile and response about how he’s “always been like this,” but Psaki’s softball question is the far more interesting and telling part of the exchange.
Leaving aside Emhoff’s history of marital infidelity that destroyed his first marriage (hardly the image of masculine virtue), Psaki is painting the image that in this reimagined masculinity, to be a “supportive spouse,” men must subordinate their own ambitions and goals to those of the women in their lives. This message of sit down and shut up is the feminist equivalent of the cliche that men want women barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.
Today, men, especially younger men, are hurting economically and socially. The labor force participation rate for women has grown by six points in the last 10 years, while for men, it has stayed entirely stagnant, never recovering the jobs lost during the recession of 2008. Fewer and fewer men are attending college. Groups that once drove male social engagement, such as unions and fraternal organizations, have seen enormous declines in membership in recent decades, and nearly 20% of young men under the age of 34 still live with their parents while exhibiting higher levels of loneliness and suicidal ideation.
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Psaki, Emhoff, and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the other anointed model of Democratic masculinity, are doing nothing to address the cultural problems that plague men. Their answer is to redefine what masculinity is. This is the reimagined masculinity that Psaki extolled Emhoff for modeling: A masculinity that shuns ambition and purpose and declares the image of masculine virtue as a flannel-wearing football watcher who stays out of the way.
It is hard to think of a worse pitch to male voters who feel left behind and ignored, but the message is clear: Democrats want men to sit down, shut up, and enjoy it.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
