{"id":2255990,"date":"2024-05-30T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seinfeld-has-an-unpopular-opinion-on-dominant-masculinity\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T16:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T20:59:38","slug":"seinfeld-has-an-unpopular-opinion-on-dominant-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seinfeld-has-an-unpopular-opinion-on-dominant-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Seinfeld&#8217;s Unconventional View on &#8216;Domineering Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseinfeld-has-an-unpopular-opinion-on-dominant-masculinity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2255990&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Allison Anton&#8217;s commentary on May 30, 2024, delves into\u200b Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s outspoken views on\u2062 societal issues. Seinfeld criticizes the impact of &#8220;wokeness&#8221; on comedy and expresses nostalgia for a time \u2064of \u200bdominant masculinity. This perspective has sparked \u200ddebates on the \u200drole \u2064of masculinity in modern \u200dAmerican culture and the need\u2063 for strong male figures. Allison Anton&#8217;s commentary on May 30, 2024, explores Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s vocal stance on societal matters. Seinfeld critiques how &#8220;wokeness&#8221; affects comedy and reminisces about an era of prevailing masculinity. His\u200b views have\u200d ignited discussions regarding masculinity&#8217;s significance in contemporary American society and the \u2063requirement for resolute male role models.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/%20\"><span>Allison Anton<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 30, 2024 at 11:53am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>It seems comedian Jerry Seinfeld has lost his patience with the insidious scourge of wokeness infecting society.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jerry-seinfeld-unleashes-extreme-left-devastating-impact-comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling out the extreme left<\/a> for killing comedy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jerry-seinfeld-gives-vicious-pro-palestinian-protesters-exact-response-deserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/anti-israel-heckler-chutzpah-take-jerry-seinfeld-gets-instant-lesson-comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mocking<\/a> anti-Israel protesters, Seinfeld has grown more and more comfortable voicing views that are outside the Hollywood mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>And now he has expressed his thoughts on the sorry state of masculinity in modern Western culture.<\/p>\n<p>Seinfeld\u2019s remarks came during his appearance Tuesday on The Free Press\u2019 \u201cHonestly with Bari Weiss\u201d podcast as part of a press tour for his movie \u201cUnfrosted,\u201d a comedic, fictionalized account of the creation of Pop-Tarts set in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>The host asked him if the film was made, in part, because of his \u201cnostalgia for this time that feels like another planet or at least another country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it does,\u201d Seinfeld said. \u201cBut there\u2019s another element there that I think is the key element and that is an agreed-upon hierarchy, which I think is absolutely vaporized in today\u2019s moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think that is why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-mental-anguish-financial-and-emotional-distress-unvaxed-united-airlines-employees-send-1000s-of-letters-to-board-of-directors\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 'Mental Anguish, Financial and Emotional Distress': Unvaxed United Airlines Employees Send 1,000s of Letters to Board of Directors\">people lean<\/a> on the horn and drive in the crazy way that they drive because we have no sense of hierarchy, and as humans, we don\u2019t really feel comfortable like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then reminisced about the \u201creal men\u201d celebrated in the 1960s, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coming-2-america-a-cult-classic-ruined-by-progressive-wokeness\/\" title=\"Coming 2 America: A Cult Classic Ruined By Progressive Wokeness\">film takes place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seinfeld told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jerry-seinfeld-gives-vicious-pro-palestinian-protesters-exact-response-deserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weiss<\/a> \u2014 semi-jokingly \u2014 that he \u201calways wanted to be a real man. I never made it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Should we bring back dominant masculinity?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn that era, again, it was JFK, it was Muhammad Ali, it was Sean Connery, Howard Cosell, you can go all the way down there \u2014 that\u2019s a real man,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be like that someday,\u201d Seinfeld continued, lamenting how he \u201cnever really grew up \u2026 you don\u2019t want to as a comedian because it\u2019s a childish pursuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And here was the phrase he used that got the keyboard warriors up in arms:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss a dominant masculinity. Yeah, I get the toxic thing \u2014 but still, I like a real man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TXAvkqXD-Fc?si=yuywpc9S7We_p793&#038;start=234\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pro-palestinian-graduates-cant-handle-jerry-seinfeld-storm-off-commencement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seinfeld<\/a> had an excellent point.<\/p>\n<p>Though there are still strong, handsome men in entertainment, you would be hard-pressed to say that masculinity has been at all \u201cdominant\u201d in modern American culture.<\/p>\n<p>The woke culture has generally preferred sensitive, nonthreatening males who have been more in touch with their feminine side \u2014 men like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/weeks-balenciaga-scandal-harry-styles-teams-gucci-using-kids-mattress-teddy-bear-shirt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Styles<\/a> who wear women\u2019s clothing and have a boyish or even androgynous aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>But such men are not the kind you rely on in a crisis, nor are they leaders or providers for their families.<\/p>\n<p>The dominant men to which Seinfeld referred were unafraid to take charge and make the hard but necessary choices.<\/p>\n<p>Without those sorts of men, the agreed-upon hierarchy is lost, leaving young people adrift and confused, groping in the dark for truth and an idea of social order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jerry-seinfeld-doubles-says-seinfeld-jokes-never-written-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seinfeld<\/a> immediately faced a backlash for his remarks, with some keyboard warriors attacking his masculinity \u2014 which, of course, doesn\u2019t invalidate what he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yes the \u201cdominant masculinity\u201d for which Jerry Seinfeld is well known\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CYDct9Ck6C\">https:\/\/t.co\/CYDct9Ck6C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Roljs12FhZ\">pic.twitter.com\/Roljs12FhZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahkendzior\/status\/1796177060043391476?\">May 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The guy who complains about the little plastic things on the ends of shoelaces wants real men to return:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6k3ulmJ8dO\">https:\/\/t.co\/6k3ulmJ8dO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 scharpling (@scharpling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scharpling\/status\/1795910497998696620?\">May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Modern American culture is suffering in large part from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/masculinity-crisis-poll-finds-24-men-think-cant-beat-rodent-one-one-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crisis in masculinity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And until the culture can recapture a sense of the dominant masculinity Seinfeld was pining for, our problems will only get worse.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. Flynn\u2019s warning means that the 2024 election is the most important election for every single living American. If we lose this one to the wealthy elites who hate us, hate God, and hate what America stands for, we can only assume that 248 years of American history and the values we hold dear to our hearts may soon vanish.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The end game is here, and as Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>All of this means that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, it\u2019s over. We have the platform, the journalists, and the experience to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-rises-as-he-promises-hes-only-begun-to-fight-put-on-full-armor-of-god-to-fight-the-left\/\" title=\"DeSantis Rises As He Promises He\u2019s \u2018Only Begun To Fight\u2019: \u2018Put On Full Armor Of God\u2019 To Fight The Left\">fight back hard<\/a>, but Big Tech is strangling us through advertising blacklists, shadow bans, and algorithms. Did you know that we\u2019ve been blacklisted by 90% of advertisers? Without direct support from you, our readers, we can\u2019t continue the fight.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Can we count on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>your support<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>? It may not seem like much, but a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Western Journal Membership<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  can make all the difference in the world because when you support us directly, you cut Big Tech out of the picture. They lose control. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>A monthly Western Journal Membership costs less than one coffee and breakfast sandwich each month, and it gets you access to ALL of our content \u2014 news, commentary, and premium articles. You\u2019ll experience a radically reduced number of ads, and most importantly you will be vitally supporting the fight for America\u2019s soul in 2024.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We are literally counting on you because without our members, The Western Journal would cease to exist. Will you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>join us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  in the fight? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-45810\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-45810\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45810\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45810\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Allison Anton dabbles in fiction, as well as commenting on depressing modern trends and media. She calls the metro Atlanta area home, and when she\u2019s not writing, she\u2019s creating a loving home for her amazing husband.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Anton&#8217;s May 30, 2024, 11:53 am commentary highlights comedian Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s frustration with societal &#8220;wokeness.&#8221; Seinfeld openly criticizes the extreme left for stifling comedy and ridicules anti-Israel demonstrators. 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