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2021-10-30

The demise of the patriarchy : where feminism leads

"Where have all the men gone?" asked Fox News host Laura Ingraham during her Friday opening of "The Ingraham Angle" as recent public attacks against women have exposed the decreasing willingness of men to intervene and offer protection.

The phrase "toxic masculinity," Ingraham said was once relegated to women’s studies courses on college campuses but entered the common vernacular only a short time ago. The host noted that the phrase nearly coincided with the American Psychological Association’s warning that "males who are socialized to conform to ‘traditional masculinity ideology’ are often negatively affected in terms of mental and physical health."

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The radical left’s goal, she said, is to "destroy the underpinnings of the nuclear family" by launching attacks against the traditional roles played by mothers and fathers. Ingraham, a single parent herself, said it is ideal for children to be raised by both a father and mother who are present, noting that despite trying their best, raising children is much harder on single parents.

"Somehow this idea of traditional roles is threatening to the radicals who see the traditional family—especially traditional men—as an impediment to socialism and a rewriting of American history," she argued.

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Ingraham closed her "Angle" saying that the "mass feminization of men should trouble women the most" because women were indeed the victims of these heinous attacks. "Because the cultural elites and institutions have spent years villainizing masculinity," she ended, "there were no good men willing to step in and save them. 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ingraham-where-have-all-the-men-gone

From the American Association Against Traditional Values:

"The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful." 

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/01/ce-corner

Comment:  Traditional masculinity, as I knew it, was not marked by aggression.