Masculinity, Reproductive Rights, and Political Shifts: A Deep Dive into Current Trends
Emasculation Nation
The Democratic National Convention last month saw men lining up outside the conference center to be sterilized. This was in line with the convention's emphasis on "reproductive rights". A large inflatable IUD was stationed close to the entrance and Planned Parenthood set up a mobile clinic in a nearby parking lot. On the first day of the convention, they offered free vasectomies and abortions on the second day.
Luis Ayala, a 28-year-old electrician, was one of ten men who chose to be sterilized that day. His wife had seen a social media post about the free reproductive health clinic that Planned Parenthood was sponsoring in Chicago during the Democratic convention and suggested that he sign up.
The increase in sterilizations among both sexes following the Dobbs decision, which repealed Roe v. Wade, was significant. Even though the increase in the number of female procedures was almost double the increase in male procedures, the increase among men was still substantial and can only be explained as a response to the Supreme Court’s decision.
According to John Semley, “a vasectomy almost seems like a political gesture. It’s a way for men to take a more active stake in big decisions about contraception and reproduction that typically fall to women.”
The Guardian reported that daily web searches for “Where can I get a vasectomy?” increased by 850% when the draft Dobbs decision was released in May 2022.
New male contraceptive pills and treatments are also being marketed as a way for men to take a more active stake in big decisions about contraception and reproduction. One of these drugs is YCT-529, which works by blocking the body’s access to vitamin A, which is essential for sperm production.
However, there is skepticism about the drug's side effects. Interfering with the body’s metabolism of a crucial vitamin could have other effects. In the long term, interfering with vitamin A metabolism could be a disaster. Vitamin A deficiencies cause blindness, scaly skin, decreased immunity, and stunted growth. Vitamin A also has a vital role to play in brain health.
The market for male contraceptives stands at $200 billion a year, according to a study published in the journal Current Obstetrics and Gynecology Reports. A 2021 study in the Journal of Sex Research claims that between 34% and 82.3% of men might be willing to use a novel male contraceptive.
The Democratic National Convention also emphasized the idea that Democrat men are different from Republican men. Democrat men are more likely to support having a female leader.
The Democrats were always going to struggle to match the sheer androgenic absurdity of a 6’6”, 300lb+ pro-wrestling legend ripping his shirt off at the Republican National Convention to reveal a Trump-Vance t-shirt and shouting, “LET TRUMPAMANIA RUN WILD, BROTHER!” Things only got stranger when Trump blew the Hulkster a kiss in response.
The Democrats’ vision of the American nu-male is embodied by Tim Walz. He carries the trappings of traditional masculinity but is also not afraid to say things that would be right at home on a childless cat lady’s Instagram page, like “surround yourself with smart women and listen to them, and you’ll do just fine.”
However, Tim Walz is not just being a supportive modern male, confident enough in his own skin to allow a woman to take the lead. He is offering a performance of the future for white American men if the Democrats remain in charge—and it’s not pretty.
Walz is the unfortunate sidekick. The fat, hapless comedy foil. This is a stereotype we all know well, but what’s important is the racial element. It came out most clearly in a bizarre skit Harris and Walz staged a few weeks ago involving a discussion about tacos.
In the end, it all comes back to demographic change. The Democrats have been flooding the country with as many illegals as possible over the last four years, including flying over half a million directly into red states like Florida and Texas under the CHNV program and naturalizing and offering amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegals in a desperate bid to tip the scales for the election this November.
Tim Walz is the stand-in for America’s white men robbed of their potency, not by processed food or endocrine disruptors, but by demographic change. Sidelined through the sheer weight of numbers in a cynical, resentful political ploy, without the political, cultural, or social power they once wielded, America’s white men won’t completely disappear, of course. Instead, they’ll just shuffle off into irrelevancy. A sad role: each man a Tim Walz, a spectacle, making unfunny jokes at his own expense. Or, at least, that’s the plan anyway.
Bottom Line
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