Republicans and the crisis of “manhood”: Who are the real sex-obsessed pervs in America?

Republicans are fixated on bizarre sexual fantasies, maybe because of their twisted relationship with You Know Who

The Republican Party long ago slipped under the sheets with the religious right to become bedfellows in the culture wars, encouraging bigots, misogynists and Christian zealots to insist that others live by their morals (or lack thereof).

This bizarre-tent party of religious grifters, pussy grabbers, gun polishers, closeted men, angry incels, alleged rapists and take-girls-across-the-state-line Lotharios is evangelically intolerant of the personal business of others and determined to dictate whom you can love or marry, how you should come to terms with your gender identity and how much of your reproductive future you should control. These people believe they have the right to demand that you go through your entire pregnancy even if you have been raped or are the victim of incest, and they’re not particularly concerned if you die fulfilling their will. 

This hyper-focus on anything and everything sexual extends to the right’s self-proclaimed tough guys, the seeming adults who so much enjoy playing dress-up. When five members of the Proud Boys were indicted on charges of seditious conspiracy for their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, we were reminded in various news stories that members of their “fraternity” are told to masturbate no more than once “in a calendar month.” 

Look, if longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone  who, as we know, was present at the Willard hotel on Jan. 5, 2021, proudly being “protected” by those white-supremacist boys  considers himself a “trysexual” (because he says he’s willing to try everything) or Cawthorn enjoys a bit of frat-boy-style cross-dressing while drinking with his bros, that’s none of my business.

Which is exactly the point.

In the face of all the grim, twisted, hateful and self-hating moralism from the right, liberals and progressives must reclaim their mojo as celebrants of the beauty and joy of life, as Salon’s Amanda Marcotte argued a few months ago. Masculinity and femininity need not be prisons or traps or destinies. Those supposed poles, and all points in between, are available to all of us as we go through life figuring out who we are. Isn’t that wonderful?  

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/28/and-the-of-manhood-are-the-real-obsessed-pervs-in-america/