You Can’t Scrub the Stink Off “Traditional Masculinity”

Donald Trump made the subtext of conservative “masculinity” text. Chris Pratt and Josh Hawley are trying to reclaim it.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
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6 min readNov 9, 2021

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Chris Pratt has an all-time douchey smile.
The face of a man who has no idea where his son is. Photo by Matteo Chinellato on Shutterstock.com.

You have seen the picture: A white couple in an off-white living room, him beefy and blue-eyed, her groomed within an inch of her life. She looks up at him, adoringly, as…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
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Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.