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.
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 if to say “my entire life is summed up in loving this man.” He looks at the camera, as if to say “I am posing for a photo right now.” His eyes are empty.
“Look how she’s looking at me!” commanded actor, Evangelical Christian, and rumored future Republican candidate Chris Pratt, in an Instagram post that will live in infamy. The woman was his second wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, and Pratt soon listed all the other things she was required to do: “She’s given me an amazing life, a gorgeous healthy daughter” — Pratt’s son from his first marriage is disabled — and “[she] helps me with everything. In return, periodically, I open a jar of pickles. That’s the trade. Her heart is pure and it belongs to me.”
The female human being he owned, Pratt went on to say, was his second greatest treasure other than a baseball card. He also threatened not to get her anything for her birthday. What’s worse: For large parts of the country, this depraved…
