Toxic masculinity is literally infecting people with Covid MSNBC 2 hrs ago Liz Plank
Last month, President Joe Biden dismissed the decision by governors in states including Texas and Mississippi to end mask mandates as “Neanderthal thinking.”
The problem isn’t men; it’s the men committed to a certain performance of masculinity.
“I’m reiterating my call for every governor, mayor and local leader to maintain and reinstate the mask mandate,” Biden later solemnly stated in a White House address.
Whether he knew it or not, Biden was pointing to a specific and revelatory trend in how some people are interacting with pandemic restrictions. Because “Neanderthal thinking” might be the best way to describe an apparent aversion to masks, health restrictions and vaccines that certain men are exhibiting, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll of more than 6,000 adults across all 50 states.
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She has been this way almost her entire life, born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy.
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