The internet is laughing at Tucker Carlson's new program. Experts say it's no joke. [USA Today]
Jackson Katz, creator of the film "The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump," said it's short-sighted to mock or dismiss these appeals because aggrieved white manhood is a crucial factor in the rise of virtually all right-wing cults and political movements. "'Lower levels of testosterone' is a metaphor for what these movements are really concerned about: reclaiming white men's loss of status and cultural centrality," he said.
Mark Greene, author of "The Little #MeToo Book for Men," said Carlson's program is normalizing ideas from the manosphere, defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "a constellation of anti-women websites, subreddits, blogs and forums." "What I believe Tucker Carlson is doing is he's taking a lot of the recruitment strategies that are out there online for white supremacy and extremist movements and he's bringing them into broadcast television. And this is a big transition for that movement," Greene said.
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