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One 2021 study did find some decline in the average testosterone levels among samples of American teenaged and young adult men – but no evidence of a drought.īut then Carlson’s alarm about waning testosterone is not really about the hormone or even about men’s health at all. His claim that there’s been a “total collapse,” however, doesn’t have much scientific basis. Rates of gender-based violence skyrocketed during the pandemic and the female-dominated service economy disproportionately drove overall employment losses in Canada, and that, together with women leaving jobs in droves due to caregiving burdens, resulted in what’s been called the she-cession.īut in Carlson’s conspiracy-addled imagination, the real victims right now are men and the proof is in the testosterone – or lack thereof. COVID-19 took a particular toll on women’s health, safety and economic security. A decade on, many of those gains proved to be precarious. Ironically, Carlson’s special shares a title with Hanna Rosin’s 2012 book The End of Men which argued that women’s economic power was on the ascent due to the new service economy, which valued their skills. have proposed a record 238 bills so far this year that would limit the rights of LGBTQ people. Florida recently passed a “don’t say gay” law, which forbids public school teachers from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity with children in kindergarten through Grade 3, while state legislatures across the U.S. Wade is overturned or scaled back by the U.S. Several states also have put trigger bans in place which will make abortion illegal if Roe v. In the U.S., lawmakers in several states have recently passed restrictive abortion bans, including in Texas, where private citizens can sue abortion providers. Whipping up hysteria about a fake war on men is part of an ongoing conservative strategy to set up women and LGBTQ people as the enemy who must be thwarted.
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It’s no coincidence that this preoccupation with masculinity comes at a time when the rights of women and LGBTQ people are increasingly under attack. In the sweaty media manosphere that Carlson inhabits alongside other moral-panic grifters like Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson, junk science like meat-only diets and COVID-19 denial are peddled as opening acts to the main event: doomsday threats of a coming culture war. It’s apparently called “bromeopathy.” And, no, that’s not a joke.Ĭarlson’s schtick may be clownish, but the joke is on us if we don’t take the real agenda behind his fear-mongering seriously. Or at least as much sense as can be made of Carlson’s palpitating anxiety about the demise of masculinity – “the total collapse of testosterone levels in American men” is “one of the biggest stories of our lifetimes,” he says in one teaser – and his guest’s quack recommendation that men beam red light on their naked crotches to turbo boost their testosterone production. If you’ve seen the now-viral teasers for Tucker Carlson’s Fox News special The End of Men, featuring shirtless hunks wrestling each other and chopping wood while the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey thunders in the background, that phrase will make some sense. Rachel Giese is a deputy national editor at The Globe and Mail. If you’re reading this on the web or someone forwarded this e-mail newsletter to you, you can sign up for Amplify and all Globe newsletters here. This is the weekly Amplify newsletter, where you can be inspired and challenged by the voices, opinions and insights of women at The Globe and Mail.