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. 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. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Please log in to bookmark this story. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).