Josh Hawley felt that the video of him scampering out of the nation's capital on
January 6 wasn't embarrassing enough.
So he has decided to publish a book about how manly he is.
Now Hawley's book, Manhood, The Masculine Virtues Americans Need,
builds off a popular speech Hawley delivered at a conservative conference
last year, where he lamented the decline of men's unique virtues,
like courage, independence, and assertiveness.
Now, here's a piece of that speech where he talked about how the left in particular
is driving men to indulge in porn and video games, cuz that's what we do.
We sit around and we do these focus groups on how we can get more people to
watch porn, that's all we care about.
Let's watch.
>> The left attack on America leads directly to an attack on men.
Can we be surprised that after years of being told that
their manhood is the problem, more and
more men are withdrawing into the enclave of idleness,
and pornography, and video games.
>> So, I don't think being a man is a problem.
I think feeling entitled to assaulting women's bodies or
controlling anyone because you feel entitled due
to the fact that you're a man, is a problem, right?
Look, if I were to take a step back and really express what I am personally
attracted to, I am personally attracted to traditional masculinity,
but not the kind that right wingers tend to like,
not the kind that proud boys like to promote, right?
I do like courage, I do like independence, I do like assertiveness,
I do like feeling protected.
I'm a strong woman, I get it, I'm supposed to say I don't need protection, no,
sometimes you need, it sometimes it feels good to know that you have someone who
will step in and defend you if you're in danger, right?
I don't have any problems with that.
What I do have a problem with, is this false narrative that we get from
the Right Wing about how all these men are emasculated cuz it's the feminist fault.
But I think a lot of men feel aimless and they feel frustrated and
they don't know where to go in life.
Because of the economy that the Right Wing has crafted, right,
which basically puts these men at a massive disadvantage if they want to
build a life for themselves, if they wanna have a family.
All of these things that Right Wingers claim they love,
the idea of people having children, right?
You can do that without having some sort of government force involved,
you can do that by creating an economic situation where people feel the security
necessary to have a family.
But they don't wanna do that,
they just wanna use this as a talking point to demonize the other side, and of
course it's just more of the manufactured culture war, to distract from the fact
that they're not doing a damn thing to make our economic situation better.
But at the end of the day, this is just a big nothing burger, and it comes from
a guy who looks like a massive wimp running out of the capital on January 6,
and he happened to be one of the guys who totally emboldened the big election lies.
Raven I'm curious what you think, and Mark will get to you later, because as women,
we just wanna silence you as much as we can, and do away from your masculinity.
But we do want you to watch a lot of porn, right?
So [CROSSTALK] [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> I think it's funny as someone who plays
video games,
the idea that men who play video games are not toxically masculine is absurd to me.
I mean, the things that men feel comfortable saying to me [LAUGH]
once they find out that I'm a woman, is ridiculous and shocking.
But I'll take the opposite approach to Anna, I don't like a traditionally
masculine man, me like most Gen Z women like a man who looks like he
hasn't seen the sunlight in years, like a sickly man who drinks nothing but soda.
[LAUGH] But I don't know, it's really silly because I mean
you look at Josh Hawley or the other people who perpetuate this, right?
You look at Ben Shapiro or what Matt,
the guy who did the really transphobic documentary games too.
But any of [CROSSTALK] >> That's too early I'm
sure >> Yeah, but I mean all of those people
who preach this traditional masculinity, don't fit those descriptions.
They don't fit that stereotype, right?
I'm sorry Ben Shapiro, you're five ft three, no matter how big of a cowboy hat
you put on, and no matter how high of a heel you have on your cowboy boots,
you're always gonna look like a little boy.
Like no one's gonna perceive you to be masculine.
But for them masculinity is extremely performative and they need to affirm their
gender identity by playing this character and presenting these ideas to the public.
Which is funny because then they'll say that God forbid a trans person
affirm their identity in public.
Well, that is all that these people know how to do.
It's really silly.
But yeah, I think that a strong gust of wind could blow away Josh Hawley.
So maybe she should not be out here preaching typical masculinity.
>> Yeah, and then I'll just add one thing before I go to you Mark,
I just think masculinity means different things to different people, right?
And people have different preferences,
like Ravenna totally respect what you're attracted to.
You have the right to be attracted to whatever you like.
>> [LAUGH] >> That look great, but my point is,
in my mind masculinity is a man who is comfortable with who he is,
a man who knows who he is is confident in that.
And yeah, I mean it's not even about his aesthetic, it's about what he represents.
Is he someone who has values,
that he's willing to defend someone with principles, right?
But they never talk about that, notice they never talk about that.
They always talk about the shallow stuff, like he's watching too much porn,
or he's playing a video games, like what is this, 19 sixties?
Let's wrap this up, let's have a real conversation here.
Starting with Mark, go ahead.
>> It does seem as though the video games thing is a bad bust.
It's like a guy who's from 1985 saying all those kids with those video games,
hey dude, maybe you should get hip to the video game situation,
and the porn thing, he throws it in.
But if you look at I think Red State consumption of porn because they
they track in all these different porn sites can tell you where the most users,
the per capita use of porn in the Red States far exceeds those of the blue.
Anyway, so there's that if you even view those things as negative,
that's a different issue completely.
And I wouldn't so as I say, but look this is something I think you so correctly
identified this Anna, that the right wraps themselves in, and it's hate of the left,
anything they can pin on, they're not manly enough, whatever that means.
Meanwhile they fetishize guns, they fetishize the military, that fetishize
these sort of toxic masculinity symbols that have more than been undercut.
I mean by now it must be clear to people,
these are such one dimensional symptoms of masculinity, they don't mean anything.
I'll just say this finally, Holly is also scrambling.
He was completely made fun of, he was mocked by all of America and
that January 6 committee did a great job of pointing out what a one dimensional
a whole he was, with working the crowd up and then running for his life.
So, Holly needs to come up with something, he's desperate.
So he comes up with this as I say, flimsy manhood thing and
it's positively hilarious.
I mean it really is awful.
>> Are you saying that Josh Hawley's manhood is flimsy?
>> [LAUGH] That's exactly it.
>> No, I mean, the point you were making made me think of how
this is really a go to move for a lot of Right Wing men, right?
Where they come in and they provoke something, right?
They come in and they stir the pot, they create a dangerous situation, a violent
situation, whatever, they just love to do that, and then they run away, right?
We saw it with George Zimmerman where he follows a teenage
black boy in a gated community in Florida.
911 dispatcher tells him stop following him and he continues doing it and
then he makes himself out to be the victim when you have Trayvon martin defending
himself, because there's a creepy dude following him and threatening him.
So that's the same thing that Josh Hawley did.
He decided to inflame political violence in this country,
and then the second that he might be facing the consequences
of that literally through the very violence that he provoked,
runs away, runs scampers off, like a true man would, right?
Final thing I'll just say here, the description for
his book on amazon has some interesting things listed.
I want you to go to graphic three here.
No republic has ever survived without men of character to defend what is just and
true, like spewing election lies that leads to violence in our nation's
capital like he did.
Starting with the wisdom of the ancients, from the Greek and Roman philosophers to
Jesus of Nazareth, and drawing on the lessons of American history,
Hawley identifies this is the part that's relevant.
The defining strengths of men, including responsibility, bravery, fidelity.
Fidelity.
Where's my fidelity?
Okay, the guy who provided cover for a former president who had,
I mean, how many wives, how many times did he cheat on those wives?
How much money did he pay hush money payments to adult actresses and
all of that, in order to keep them, hush hush don't talk about the affair we had.
Your time off fidelity.
Fidelity.
Okay.
>> Well, the last thing I would say about that to Anna is the whole idea that,
since the dawn of time, men of quality have protected the civilization.
Yeah, that's because they've completely subjugated women.
Women were not even allowed to be relevant in these societies and
these republics that you talk about.
It's such an ignorant one dimensional view of history.
And it's no surprise that it comes out of Josh Hawley.
>> Super, super last thing, I thought it was quite funny that he says,
people who survived and then lists Jesus of Nazareth, famous for surviving.
[LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] Are you really expecting them
to know details about the religious doctrine that they purport to believe in?
I mean that's crazy.
>> Calling Jesus wherever you can, right?
Yeah. >> Let's just end this story with
the final video, here's capitol police officer Michael Finnegan,
telling the world the truth about Josh Hawley.
>> Well, I mean, to be completely honest,
to give you the first thoughts that popped into my mind was Josh Hawley is and
he ran like obviously I see like the amusement of it.
And I'm not gonna fall people for finding it humorous, but that pisses me off.
That guy's a clown.