You may remember Alexandra York as the Newsmax columnist who has opinions about modern art (spoiler: she doesn’t like it, because it’s directly representational of anything, especially “Western heritage”). In her Aug. 1 column, she has opinions about “masculine men” because “it happens to be a hot emotional subject right now,” particularly “Feminists’ demonization of “toxic” (masculine) men.” Thus, she declared, “a fresh rational look at the subject in the American-led Western civilizations’ current sex-obsessed context is important.” But she had to note a bunch of stipulations before getting there:
At the outset, we must stipulate that a “masculine” man is not an “Alpha” male who (like primates) establishes physical dominance and territorial dominion over all others under his control.
We are addressing humans not animals, and although this analogy between humans and primates has been both promoted and denigrated for decades it can be laid aside as irrelevant. Evolution is significant but does not pertain to the contemporary state of humanity.
For present purposes, we also confine ourselves to human males who have passed through childhood and achieved adult physical maturity as men.
Masculinity (as with femininity), however, is not a physical state alone. These terms are used to describe the physical, mental, and behavioral state of human adults, and the descriptions have changed throughout the ages as knowledge and understanding of human nature progresses.
[…]Finally, we must in no way dismiss validity for any and all individual behavioral preferences or practices by adults. “To each his own” is applicable here as it is with all personal choices in life.
York declared that, among other things, “a masculine man will be self-confident in the abilities and fitness of his biological body and mental acuity,” “will stand strongly for personal values but be sensitive to opinions of others,” and “also will be emotionally sensitive and sharing with intimates. Above all, he will be a “protector” of his loved ones, his chosen woman, and his children (if he has them).”
For those waiting for the eventual anti-feminist attack and right-wing defense of men, York got there:
American Feminists have long attempted to emasculate men in order to dominate them — “toxic” is only the latest derogatory term — just as elites now try to do by promoting notions that some boys may be happier if they mutilate their bodies to become pseudo “women” — easier to dominate.
Adult men, secure in their biologically given and individually achieved masculinity, are needed today more than ever before to stand firm against authoritarian-lustful governmental-social elites who would control not only global resources but also the world’s populace.
Women can fight courageously and successfully against oppression, but genuinely masculine men exude a distinctive aura of unrelenting power sensed by all, an inner stability that causes pause on the part of predators. Thus, it is likely that masculine men are needed to lead the fight against wannabe dictators like schoolboard members, doctors, federal-state-local legislators, bureaucrats, and elites who would rob us of liberty and individual agency.
In America’s present cultural malaise, it would seem we need more masculine men in a world where it seems there are fewer.
Ah, yes, school board members are “wannabe dictators” in York’s world. Where does she live, exactly?