 What's a man to you paint a picture? What's a man? Well a man is a father a man is a husband a man is somebody who takes Responsibility as conservatives. We've got to call men back to responsibility We've got to say that spending your time not working and we have more and more men who are not working spending your time on video games Spending your time watching porn online while doing nothing is not good for you your family or this country So a viewer is watching in this and they're thinking really what the Liberals are doing are gonna push me to watch porn hub More or play Donkey Kong more. Do you mean that literally? Well, what I mean literally is that I think the liberal attack the left-wing attack on Manhood says to men you're part of the problem. It says that your your masculinity is inherently problematic It's inherently oppressive. That was Senator Josh Hawley trying to explain to an Axios reporter while keeping a straight face That the attacks we're seeing on masculinity is leading to more and more men playing video games and watching pornography now Being the bastion of masculinity that he is this pencil neck knows how important masculinity is Format, I mean look at him in this face. Does this not scream masculinity? Is this not a Chad? This is a very masculine man here. Okay, so he knows so lately He's been on a tirade against these attacks on masculinity. What are the attacks in particular? Well, he doesn't necessarily say but last week He kind of said the same thing as he told this Axios reporter that more men are going to result in to you know Watching porn and playing video games if these attacks on masculinity continue. We'd be surprised That after years of being told that they are the problem that their manhood is the problem More and more men are withdrawing into the enclave of idleness and pornography and video games. I Found the comment by one young man to a Wall Street Journal reporter particularly evocative and particularly heartbreaking He said I'm sort of waiting for a light to come on So I can figure out what to do next. Oh, I'm sure it's definitely because his masculinity is being attacked definitely That's 100% what it is now first of all, I Just want to ask him who's saying this and what are they saying in particular that is leading to men Feeling I guess embarrassed by their own masculinity because that's not what I've seen personally But notice how there's no specificity in whatever case he's trying to make it's just not very compelling. He's making it up It's almost incoherent. Like I don't know what he's trying to say second of all sure I think that more and more people are Resorting to video games, which is not inherently bad. I think more people are watching porn But is it really because they feel as if their masculinity is being attacked? Or is it because life fucking sucks because of the late-stage capitalist hellscape that people like you help to build? I mean people are working longer hours for lower wages and maybe for them video games Is there only escape? Is that so bad? Is that really a bad thing? I mean we shouldn't have to find escapes life itself should be good enough We should have a government living in the richest country on the planet that actually provides for us So we don't feel inclined to find escapes, but nevertheless, you know, he's not blaming the actual Causal mechanisms here. He's not blaming the institutions. He's not blaming capitalism He's blaming attacks on masculinity and notice how there's this implication that anyone who plays video games Well, I mean that's just inherently bad You know if you watch porn you're a bad person But that's not actually the case the association for psychological science actually found that playing video games boosts visual motor skills and on top of that a study published in Psychological medicine found that boys that play video games are actually at a lower risk of experiencing depression that's a good thing and Contrary to popular belief a meta analysis of 28 studies dating back to 2008 found that video games Don't actually make players more violent video games and porn these are things that are fine in moderation Of course, I mean you don't want to become so addicted to something that it ruins your life So perhaps he's speaking about the addiction of video games, but video games overall They're a net benefit to people overall who play them I think that making young men less susceptible to be depressed. That's a really good thing But yet he's making it seem as if it's it's a bad thing when that that doesn't make sense But look none of this matters right? None of this matters because Josh Hawley is just trying to use this issue to distract people from the fact That as a so-called populist he self identifies as a right-wing populist, but yet he offers no solutions No benefits to people no economic prescriptions for what we should do. He has nothing So he has to fabricate issues to make it seem as if he knows the underlying issues in society That's why you're so miserable and people are miserable, but it's because you know Masculinity it's because you're playing too many video games. No actually It's the system which you're helping to perpetuate He would never actually challenge the status quo in any meaningful way He wouldn't use his power as a US senator to do anything to benefit the lives of people So what does he do? He chooses to scapegoat societal issues on irrelevant things like attacks on masculinity or Immigrants when in actuality, it's the late-stage capitalist status quo that he supports We're living in the dystopia that right-wing capitalists want. This is your society, right? This is the free market hellscape that you've created and rather than celebrating They're acknowledging rightly so that things are bad and people are miserable But yet they won't blame the system that created this mess that created all of this misery and depression and Poverty they refuse to acknowledge it. So what do they do? They make things up. It's the tax on masculinity. It's critical race theory. It's a political correctness. It's wokeness It's cat in the hat. It's a vaccine mandates They create all of these issues to distract you from the hell that they've Basically created for all of us. It's just truly on brand for modern-day Republicans who have no substance All they have is culture war nonsense like this and you know It shows unless they actually put forward any meaningful solutions that would materially benefit people's lives They're going to continue to resort to fake issues that they fabricate like this Masculinities under attack video games are bad. It's just truly It's predictable What the hell are we gonna do without men you look around the city here You see all these buildings go up these men. They're doing impossible things. They're under the streets and that that's not toxic masculinity Out of Pauling phrase It's what keeps the world going round if we had any sense we'd understand that instead of Doing everything at every possible moment to label what we have in the West as oppressive and patriarchal and and and Fundamentally predicated on power of all the insane propositions