The Harris/Walz Man Show
Heavy on stereotypes, low on testosterone
In Season 3 of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Buffy’s friend Xander takes a girl named Anya to the prom. Now, Anya is not your typical high school senior. She spent the previous thousand years as a vengeance demon — a demonic fairy godmother summoned by vindictive women who wanted revenge on the men who wronged them.
After the prom, Anya tries to get Xander to go on another date with her. She suggests they watch a sporting event together, explaining, “Men like sports. I’m sure of it.”
Xander replies, “Yes, men like sports. Men watch the action movie. They eat the beef and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs, and that’s all you’ve learned?”
If Anya hadn’t died in the series finale of “Buffy,” I’d wonder if she got a job working for the Harris/Walz campaign because their understanding of men is just as stereotypical.
Team Kamala launched a multi-pronged effort last week to appeal to male voters, including an unofficial campaign video that purported to show real manly men who were “man enough” to vote for Kamala Harris.
In the interests of full disclosure, I couldn’t make it through all 90 seconds. I got about 45 seconds in before the cringing forced me to stop.
The ad was roundly panned on Twitter, and for good reason.
On what planet does a man sit like this?
It also featured a chubby puddin’ body guy who declared, “I eat carburetors for breakfast!” Yeah, okay. The carb part, I believe.
Within hours of its release, Twitter users mined every possible meme they could think of from that stupid ad.
At first, I thought the video was a parody. But it wasn’t. The maker appeared on CNN to defend his vision of masculinity. The Babylon Bee even attempted to parody the ad, but it was nowhere near as cringy as the real one.
These men in this ad don’t exist in the real world. They are actors playing stereotypes of what they think real men act like.
To add insult to injury, Kamala’s running mate Tim Walz, who was allegedly selected specifically to appeal to working-class men in the Midwest, staged a campaign “pheasant hunt” photo-op on Saturday that was as believable as the time John Kerry went to get a “huntin’ license.”
At one point, Walz pressed the butt of the shotgun against his crotch while he … who knows — tried to load it?
I have no idea what he’s doing here.
As @redsteeze (Stephen L. Miller) said on Twitter:
If that thing goes off while the butt stock is in his crotch, he’s changing his pronouns.
If that’s how Walz holds a shotgun, it certainly would explain why he and his wife had fertility problems.
It is no surprise that Team Kamala is polling so badly among men. Democrats spent the past decade vilifying men for their “toxic masculinity” and accusing them of being sexist “mansplainers,” “man-spreaders,” and potential rapists fueled by misogyny. Their supposed outreach to men would inevitably consist of effeminate girl-sitters pretending to like the action movie, eat the beef, and look at the bosoms.
Team Kamala isn’t targeting men; they’re insulting them.
As Matt Walsh explained on Twitter:
On the Left, to be a “real man” means simply playing second fiddle to women. Any man who submits and assumes a subservient role is automatically a role model for all men. Unsurprisingly, this debased and matriarchal view of men does not resonate with any man aside from the most effeminate and testosterone-depleted. It is a vision of masculinity that appeals almost entirely to liberal feminist women, and no one else.
Democrats know they have a problem with male voters, but the people trying to solve the problem created it in the first place.
Dressing Tim Walz up as Elmer Fudd and sending him out to load a shotgun with his nuts won’t erase decades of attacking the male of the species. You can’t undo years of calling men misogynistic rapists in the making by hiring effeminate actors and costuming them in flannel shirts and ball caps. None of that will work, especially when campaign surrogates like Barack Obama continue to accuse men of misogyny for refusing to support Kamala.
Columnist Jon Gabriel noted the inherent problem Team Kamala has with its outreach to male voters in a thread on Twitter:
The fundamental problem with Dems' male outreach: Treating guys as another stereotypical identity group. 99% don't view themselves that way.
"A 2019 McKinsey study indicates they consume brewed beverages, mow up to 27 types of grass, & view sportsball."
This ain't it, chief.
It's as tin-eared as Jill Biden comparing Latinos to breakfast tacos, Kamala using a different accent for each ethnic group, or John Kerry wearing camo and saying "can I get me a huntin' license?"
Podcaster Bridget Phetasy put it more succinctly:
What Democrats are realizing far too late is that they’ve Bud Lighted their whole brand.
Operation Appeal To Male Voters reeks of panic and desperation and appeals only to voters who already support Kamala Harris. It will do nothing to move the needle in Kamala’s direction.