masculinity

The 32-year-old has outlined his battles with drug abuse, fame, grief, self-harm, masculinity and more in a new memoir titled Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak & Dogs.

A politics that trades incessantly on disdaining “white male” this and that and on hyping “toxic masculinity” is as self-defeating as a purportedly “anti-racist” politics that ends up hyping racial identity itself.

His monologues resound with right-wing rants and epitomize toxic masculinity in a character he calls Alpha Male.

And Donald Trump, who doubled down on masculinity in this election, may have played a part in exploiting that.

“President Trump talking about that and saying, ‘I want you to achieve the American dream,’ he’s speaking directly to Hispanic men who feel like their masculinity is now in question because they aren’t able to be providers for their families.”