CNN talking head Dana Bash acknowledges DNC's appeal to men with testosterone deficits



CNN host Dana Bash suggested this week that this year's Democratic National Convention was strategically geared toward men with testosterone deficits, particularly those averse to type A male personalities and machismo displays.

Jake Tapper told fellow CNN talking heads Bash and Abby Phillip Wednesday that whereas women "overwhelmingly" support Harris, men tend to support former President Donald Trump.

An Economist/YouGov poll released this week revealed that 51% of women who are registered voters indicated they support Harris; 38% said they supported Trump. Alternatively, 49% of male respondents said they intend to vote for Trump, and 42% said they were going to vote for Harris.

"There's the gender gap. Then there's the idea that for the last month, the Democratic Party has been rallying around a woman at the top of the ticket," said Bash. "Which is — the only other time they did it, which is in 2016. And it has been noteworthy to see how they are learning about what to do and how to confront Donald Trump as the opponent to a woman. 2016 and now — very different campaigns, very different female candidates."

According to Bash, this time around, Democrats are attempting to appeal to more effeminate men.

'There is a contrast that is going to be on display tonight, here.'

"They are doing so in trying to put forward male figures, Tim Walz being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night, who can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, you know, gun-toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan and the kind of players that came out at the RNC or might want to listen to that," said Bash. "But also, in addition, understand that it's okay in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who supports a woman."

"That's something that they really are trying to work on with male voters beyond the base," added Bash.

After the allusion to low-testosterone men, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff — who recently admitted having an affair during his first marriage — Jake Tapper referenced a previous conversation about "different definitions of masculinity in 2024" and suggested the Republican National Convention had alternatively been "testosterone-y," citing speeches from UFC CEO Dana White, Kid Rock, and Hulk Hogan as examples.

After expressing dissatisfaction with Hulk Hogan's recent joke about body-slamming Kamala Harris, Abby Phillip said, "When we talk about the kind of testosterone that they put on display at the RNC, that's what it was. There is a contrast that is going to be on display tonight, here. There are going to be people associated with Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign — the LGBTQ+ organization."

"They are going to be putting those people on the stage to talk about a different version of America," continued Phillip. "But for Democrats, it's always this balancing act between feeding the need for their base, to hear these messages of affirmation about a sort of rainbow coalition, if you will, of their party. But they do also have to talk to the people, who maybe they're not comfortable with the Hulk Hogans, but they do want the party to speak to them right now."

'You have a lot of younger men admiring the strength of Trump.'

While Democrats are allegedly striving to appeal to those men who feel uncomfortable "with the Hulk Hogans," young American men are increasingly turning conservative and orienting toward strength contra cosmopolitan values.

The Guardian recently noted that whereas in 2016, 51% of young men identified or leaned toward the Democratic Party, that number dropped last year to 39%. In the months since, young men have begun to favor Republican control of Congress and have taken even more of a shine to Trump.

"This idea of America needing someone who is a strong masculine figure — I think the Republican campaign this year is doing it even in a more pronounced and overt way than it did in 2016," Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, told the Guardian. "You have a lot of younger men admiring the strength of Trump — or what they think is strong."

Deckman indicated that in 2022, 49% of Gen Z men said that the U.S. had become "too soft and feminine." Last year, she said that 60% of the cohort said the same.

'The message is too feminine: 'Everything you're doing is destroying the planet.'

There are some inside the Democratic Party who have raised the alarm about the apparent feminization project under way, including Democratic strategist James Carville.

"If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election," Carville told the New York Times earlier this year. "I'm like: 'Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?'"

Carville zeroed in on one possible reason Harris' predecessor was shedding support among minority voters and potentially alienating men: "A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females."

Citing research by the Young Men Research Initiative, the Guardian noted that Harris is unlikely to perform better with young male voters than Biden.

"'Don't drink beer. Don't watch football. Don't eat hamburgers. This is not good for you,'" continued Carville. "The message is too feminine: 'Everything you're doing is destroying the planet. You've got to eat your peas.'"

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Whitlock: Football feminization reached a new low on Sunday



We used to understand that not everything is for everybody. We no longer do. We live in the era of unisex bathrooms. In the name of “inclusion,” we killed the Boy Scouts to make room for girls. We expanded marriage.

We bought the lie that everything is for everybody. We embraced the myth that we can have it all. No, we can’t. Our collective pursuit of everything undergirds America’s decline.

Pat Riley, the NBA legend, calls it the “disease of more.” A team wins a championship, and every member of the organization wants more for themselves. The quest for more eventually changes the character of the pursuer. He or she loses life balance and compromises core values in the hunt for more.

In my opinion, the “disease of more” explains Tom Brady’s rumored divorce. You can’t have it all.

It’s a lesson that the NFL will soon learn. The National Football League, America’s favorite form of entertainment, wants to have it all. Under the weak leadership of commissioner Roger Goodell, the NFL has spent the last 15 years pursuing corporate media-defined inclusion.

A sport intended to groom young boys and men to compete in a meritocracy has bowed to the feminist worldview of diversity, inclusion, and equity. The NFL strives to be everything for everybody. The push for inclusion has caused the league to prioritize safety.

Safety is a woman’s priority. Men seek thrills and danger. Men aren’t sadistic. We’re made different by design. Our love of danger leads to progress and advancement. Men called “roughnecks” built skyscrapers in the 1920s. Forty percent of them fell to their deaths or disablement. Women never would have done it.

The NFL’s preference to maximize safety and limit danger poses the greatest threat to America’s most popular sport. It’s a far more damaging initiative than the league’s promotion of Black Lives Matter and anti-American sentiment.

People watch football because we’re entertained by seeing men flirt with danger in pursuit of a goal.

Football is far less entertaining than it was 20 years ago, before an onslaught of rules changes softened the game and demonized hard hits. Yesterday’s Atlanta-Tampa Bay game was ruined when referee Jerome Boger flagged a Falcons defensive lineman for a routine sack of Tom Brady. The roughing-the-passer penalty cost Atlanta any chance of a comeback.

On Miami’s first offensive play against the New York Jets, officials monitoring the game removed quarterback Teddy Bridgewater because he allegedly briefly staggered when getting to his feet after a routine hit. Bridgewater was not allowed to return to the game. Facing Miami’s third-string quarterback, the Jets won in a romp.

The Brady and Bridgewater plays are a direct result of the Tua Tagovailoa controversy two weeks ago. Tagovailoa, who is fragile, suffered brief paralysis after a routine hit. Without a shred of evidence, broadcasters and social media influencers connected Tagovailoa’s brief paralysis to a hit he suffered four days earlier.

Broadcasters demonized the Dolphins organization and the team’s head coach for allowing Tua to play. The NFLPA demanded an investigation and then worked with the NFL to enact immediate new rules related to concussion protocols. Those new rules are why Bridgewater disappeared yesterday after one play.

We all want football to be safe. When it’s not safe, we want to blame somebody.

The game isn’t meant to be safe. It’s meant to be dangerous and entertaining. People are going to get hurt. It’s inevitable. It’s no different from boxing or mixed martial arts. It’s no different from working on a skyscraper in the 1920s.

The NFL won’t make this argument because the league wants to be all things to all people. It wants to avoid upsetting women and men who have been feminized to the point that they might as well be women.

The NFL fears moms. Women who won’t let their sons play football because the sport is too dangerous. They’re the same women who won’t let their kids go to school without wearing a mask. They’re women who want to remove all the risks from life.

Women and beta males desire for all of us to sit in our homes playing video games, communicating over social media, watching 50-year-old Queen Latifah beat up men in "The Equalizer" TV series, and waiting for our next booster shot.

They want us all to transition into women. Their plan is working.

I’ve watched football for 50 years. I turned off my television when I saw Tua’s momentarily disfigured fingers locked in the air. I briefly lost my appetite for football. That has never happened before. It speaks to the impact of football concussion propaganda. I’ll watch someone get knocked out in the ring or octagon and jump for joy.

But we have been programmed to see violence in football as savage and gruesome. Fifteen years ago, Chris Berman and Tom Jackson could react to NFL big hits the way Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier still do at UFC events. We’re all still allowed to enjoy seeing fighters get put in the concussion protocol. It’s socially unacceptable to enjoy it on the football field.

We pretend that the grossly exaggerated CTE pandemic only affects football players.

We’ve been feminized. We’ve been programmed to prioritize our emotions and feelings over logic and fact.

We no longer know when, how, and where we should feed and support man’s innate desire to take risks. We’ve been convinced swiping left and right on Tinder is a better venue for risk-taking than a football field. More kids will be permanently and severely damaged in a hospital operating room undergoing gender-affirming surgery than playing football.

You get my point? The very people trying to make the world safer are actually making it more dangerous.

Football isn’t for women. Trying to make the game more palatable to women is a mistake. It’s why Arizona quarterback Kyler Murray showed up to work on Sunday wearing a lime green Hillary Clinton pantsuit.

Among other things, feminized football turns men into runway models.