It’s official. Trump won the election, and toxic masculinity has prevailed. It’s all black and white, you see. There’s the good team player, coach-my-kid’s-pickleball masculinity, and the macho-machismo, “Don’t lift weights or you might turn into a meat-eating Republican” bad masculinity.

Mr. Anderson, one of these masculinities has a future; the other does not.

Turning masculinity into a binary proposition is a paradox for both leftists and conservatives. Progressivism is dependent on subjective definitions of, well, everything. However, when it comes to gender identity, the definition is left up to the individual. There is only “Live your truth.” A unitary provisional truth is replaced by ‘multiple narratives’ and ‘alternative ways of knowing.’ Claims to provisional truth are equated with claims to power. To consider the truth would force a liberal mindset to reassess its identity and the investments its egos make in creating it.

In the fall of 2021, conservative pundit Matt Walsh was featured on the Dr. Phil Show. Unbeknownst to the audience, Matt was in the process of collecting video spots for his now-infamous What is a Woman? mockumentary. Matt was flanked by two Bearded Ladies in the circus that was the Dr. Phil show. He was also pitted against a gender studies university professor who can best be described as a wiry, butch lesbian. Matt goes fishing for content with the ‘What is a Woman?’ boilerplate question, knowing he’ll get the predictable ‘Well, it’s all relative’ answer. Then, the logical fallacies and circular logic that isn’t actually logic ensue. It’s Emotionalism vs. Empiricism, but all that’s lost on the audience.