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The cult of toughness

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Are You a Man or a Woman?

In what world is defying political correctness more manly than being a good present father, for example? And i know people like jade vance talk cessantly about the importance of fatherhood. But then you look at how people in the right talk about something like maternity leave and it boggles my mind. It seems to be basically a truism on the right that to stay home, to take paternity leave as a father and be home with your infant child was an unmanly, borderline embarrassing thing to do. The right has perfected the art of vice signalling,. which is, i'm going to say something that, by any reasonable measure, is just ass holery. I'm just

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