While the WNBA struggles to define the word woman, politicians can’t figure out masculinity. The campaign ad “Man Enough” failed to guilt men into voting for President Kamala Harris. Even “White Dudes for Harris” couldn’t stop Donald Trump from returning to the Oval Office with 55% of the male vote. As both major parties now battle for the midterms, their manhood playing cards are on the table.
James Talarico is a seminarian candidate for Senate in Texas, complete with a 50’s-style haircut. Despite his choirboy exterior, he believes “God is non-binary.” His love of “trans children” is second only to family. With ads of eating barbecued meat and driving a pickup truck, Talaico is trying to put political hair on his chest by appealing to masculine traditions in the Lone Star State. Graham Platner looked the part in Maine, but his gruff exterior couldn’t hide a steady stream of female abuse scandals.
The “manosphere” of the political right isn’t much better. Andrew and Tristan Tate built a following among young men who are tired of the emasculating politics from the Left. These youth know the culture is stigmatizing their male potential. Unfortunately, the Tate brothers replace political victimhood with brutish vanity. This isn’t the kind of “masculinity” young men need.
While drag shows and pride parades destroy male virtue, Atilla the Hun isn’t the solution. Neither respects women. Must we choose between two harmful models? Perhaps we've lost a better third way: the biblical standard. It’s not a compromise or a middle ground; it’s everything missing from the other two. Let’s consider three characteristics of biblical masculinity.
Andrew Tate, the Left both get masculinity wrong. The third way.
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