Hmm.
There’s a lot to wonder about in that passage, but I’m wondering what he means by “men with high testosterone levels.”
I guess he means particularly aggressive, violent, unthinking men?
I can see where men like that might tend to be hostile to vaccinations once they were alerted to The Resistance, but I don’t see where free thinkers come in.
No I guess I do, really – they come in through the door marked “Flatter Yourself.” They’ve opted to think it’s top-notch skepticism and independence of mind to decide vaccination is bad based on what they saw on Facebook the other day.
Christians though? What does religion have to do with it? Is that just because of the fuss about temporarily closing churches to stop the spread?
Probably. It’s all as feeble as a kitten on Zolpidem. It’s What Our Tribe thinks as opposed to what that stupid tribe that seeks out expert advice thinks. Go team.
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The Republicans are the party of male fragility.
You can see it in their strutting attempts to equate gun ownership with machismo and their constant braggadocio about their willingness to engage in violence (the coup/civil war fantasies, the declarations of “here are my guns, just try to come take them!”).
You can see it in their attempts to fetishize Donald Trump, of all people, as a pillar of masculinity: those bizarre Ben Garrison cartoons depicting Trump as some muscular Adonis exist for a reason. There’s really nothing wrong with having a president who is elderly and overweight and not a prime physical specimen, but they can’t accept the possibility that they might respect and even worship anyone who isn’t a paragon of manhood, lest it reflect on their own masculinity, so they like to reimagine Trump as just such a paragon.
You can see it in their sneering attempts to dismiss Democrats or left-leaning men as not being wholly men: they’re “soy boys” or “metrosexuals,” or they eat arugula or don’t know the right way to order a cheesesteak or whatever.
So yeah, on any given issue, people like Tucker Carlson will attempt to frame the Republican position as the “manly” one, whether it makes any sense or not. Being afraid of getting a potentially deadly virus? That’s for losers and cucks. Being afraid that 75 Afghan refugees will overwhelm Montana, or of going to a coffee shop in broad daylight without packing an AR-15? That’s manly man stuff.
Ergo, soldiers who refuse vaccination must be the manliest soldiers of them all. The ones who get vaccinated aren’t REAL soldiers. Probably more of those wimpy “woke” soldiers who lost Afghanistan.
Being lectured by TUCKER CARLSON on manliness is by definition risible, isn’t it? How macho is a bow tie?
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I’ll have you know that I like arugula is because it’s spicier than that romaine weakling.
I don’t have guns because I’m not afraid. I am not saying that I could physically overpower than that attacks me, I am saying that I don’t think it’s likely that I will be attacked. Because I don’t act like I want a fight, nor do I look lost and scared when I’m in a strange place.
Carrying a gun doesn’t require high testosterone. It requires a permit. And a vaccine won’t affect t that.
I agree that carrying guns doesn’t require high testosterone. A lot of women carry guns. So maybe the men who insist on carrying guns are wimpy girly boys, afraid of their shadow? I don’t think that generalization would be any more accurate than the idea that they are macho.
Oh, Tucker Carlson is the manliest of men, Brian. Desk jockey with a face like a slapped ass, myopic chinless loaf of day-old wonder bread. His personal experience with the military is what he read in comic books; why anybody would take him seriously on the matter is a complete mystery. The only way he could be high testosterone is if T accidentally got mixed in with his cocaine. What a chancer that man is; the only reason he has his job is that everybody else ahead of him in line at Faux News got taken down by a sex scandal. They must have been like “who we got left? What? The bowtie guy?” Hearing a guy whose entire business is having hissy fits talk about manliness is like hearing Martin Shkreli preach about business ethics.
Fear of needles is just so bloody manly…
Honestly though: All my dad’s brothers got vaccinated when they served. Likewise my wife’s parents, my BFF’s father, and my high school frenemy/psychotic rapey murderer who now calls himself Sophia got there soldierly vaccinations. Getting inoculations has been part of the job description basically forever in the United States.
I told one guy it must be terrible to live in so much fear that he feels the need to carry a gun everywhere. He replied “I’m not scared. I have a gun.”
Exactly.
George Washington required smallpox vaccination in the Continental Army. So the American Army has required vaccinations longer than there’s been an America. I think they have 13 required vaccinations now; this will just make it 14. It would be completely unremarkable were it not for a certain death cult.
Blood Knight: I detest needles. But I recognize it is an irrational fear. I got the jab.
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