{"id":994552,"date":"2021-11-10T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T18:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=994552"},"modified":"2021-11-10T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T18:43:32","slug":"exclusive-josh-hawley-fires-back-at-media-critics-left-sees-reality-of-gender-as-oppressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-josh-hawley-fires-back-at-media-critics-left-sees-reality-of-gender-as-oppressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u2013Josh Hawley Fires Back at Media Critics: Left Sees &#039;Reality of Gender&#039; as Oppressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fexclusive-josh-hawley-fires-back-at-media-critics-left-sees-reality-of-gender-as-oppressive%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=994552&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 class=\"subheading\">Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is not backing down amid fierce backlash from legacy media, after he blasted the \u201cleft-wing attack on manhood\u201d and urged men to embrace and assume the responsibilities of their gender role in a series of recent remarks.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Hawley rebuked his critics, saying their attacks are an attempt to avoid responsibility for their cultural \u201cbroadside against America.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI just think the left does not want to own up to the fact that their broadside against America also involves an attack on American men and American women,\u201d he told Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe left has become so, so bent on portraying the society as fundamentally oppressive, as fundamentally broken \u2014they now say that if you believe in the reality of gender, that you are part of that problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley first made waves during a keynote address at the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando late-last month, where he highlighted the trend of American men \u201cwithdrawing into the enclave of idleness\u201d as a result of their cultural institutions impressing upon them that \u201cmanhood is the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In an interview with Axios this week, Hawley said conservatives must \u201ccall men back to responsibility,\u201d amid the cultural left\u2019s claim that \u201cAmerica is systemically oppressive, and men are systemically responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15580314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1058158716.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15580314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1058158716.jpg\" alt=\"COLUMBIA, MO - NOVEMBER 06: Missouri&#039;s Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Josh Hawley waits in line with his wife, Erin Hawley, to casts their votes on election day at The Crossings Church on November 6, 2018 in Columbia, Missouri. Hawley, the current Missouri Attorney General, is hoping to unseat current Democratic incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill. (Photo by Michael Thomas\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Josh Hawley with his wife, Erin Hawley, on November 6, 2018 in Columbia, Missouri. (Michael Thomas\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asked to define \u201ca man,\u201d Hawley said, \u201ca man is a father, a man is a husband, a man is somebody who takes responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to say that spending your time not working \u2026 spending your time on video games, spending your time watching porn online while doing nothing is not good for you, your family or this country,\u201d he told Axios\u2019 Mike Allen.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley\u2019s claims fall in line with studies published on these topics. The National Institutes of Health released a study in May, 2019,&nbsp;<a class title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6571756\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which states<\/a>, \u201cAccording to statistics shared by Pornhub, a major online website with explicit content, the group of pornography consumers is steadily increasing and it is mostly represented by men (over 70% of all users) and young adults, below 34 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Further, in 2014, a report by Germany\u2019s Institute for the Study of Labor found that pornography consumption is negatively correlated to marriage rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditionally, one of the reasons to enter into a marriage was sexual gratification. But as options for sexual gratification outside of marriage have grown, the need for a marriage to serve this function is diminishing,\u201d&nbsp;<a class title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.iza.org\/dp8679.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the report said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A 2017 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that a decline in working hours among young men is directly linked to video game use.<\/p>\n<p>A report by&nbsp;<a class title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/03\/upshot\/why-some-men-dont-work-video-games-have-gotten-really-good.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em>on the study says, \u201csince 2004, video games have been responsible for reducing the amount of work that young men do by 15 to 30 hours over the course of a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween 2004 and 2015, young men\u2019s leisure time grew by 2.3 hours a week. A majority of that increase \u2014 60 percent \u2014 was spent playing video games, according to&nbsp;<a class title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180715220845\/https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/tus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class>government time use surveys<\/span><\/a>,\u201d the <em>Times<\/em> wrote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><big><big>Media Outrage<\/big><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Following the publication of Hawley\u2019s Axios interview, outlets across the media landscape published a torrent of criticism of his claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s Arwa Mahdawi, in her \u201cThe Week in Patriarchy\u201d series, claimed her \u201clittle woman brain assumed\u201d that men were consuming more porn and playing more video games merely as a result of increased access to high-speed Internet. She conceded that men are in crisis but argued that men who embrace traditional masculinity \u201care worse off than men who don\u2019t,\u201d adding that those who conform to traditional gender roles are less likely to seek psychological services.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Breitbart News to respond to that claim, Hawley pointed to the American Psychological Association adopting the \u201cleft-wing consensus\u201d on masculinity as the reason men are less inclined to engage with its services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be a man, and to display the kind of character traits that psychologists and philosophers and other observers have for thousands of years noticed in men \u2014 things like assertiveness, independence \u2014 that those are inherently problematic \u2026 and that\u2019s certainly the position, the American Psychological Association now takes that position, I think, reflecting kind of the left-wing consensus. And my argument in the [Orlando] speech is that that\u2019s just kind of crazy, and it\u2019s ultimately destructive,\u201d Hawley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you tell men that to be assertive, and to be independent, to exercise the kind of qualities that again, have been widely observed in men for millennia, that that is inherently problematic, that that creates injustices in society in and of itself, I think it\u2019s paralyzing to young men. I mean, it leaves them with a profound crisis of action, a profound crisis of identity and I think that\u2019s one of the reasons why you see them withdrawing from those spaces where they get those messages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s Paul Waldman highlighted Hawley\u2019s claim that the left is undermining fatherhood in his recent column \u2014 arguing that it is actually the Democratic Party encouraging men to assume more of a presence in family life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of Hawley\u2019s key recommendations is this: \u2018There is no higher calling, and no greater duty, than raising a family. And we should encourage all men to pursue it.\u2019 To which liberals would respond, \u2018Sure, and let\u2019s make this easier, with generous family leave and adequate child care,\u2019\u201d Waldman wrote.<\/p>\n<p><big><big>Hawley Responds<\/big><\/big><\/p>\n<p>When presented with that argument, Hawley conceded that members of both parties bear responsibility for creating an economic environment that negatively impacts parental involvement in family life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to own up to the fact that generations of leaders \u2014 and this hasn\u2019t really been the left or the right, I mean, the left has hailed it but the Republicans \u2026 have gone along with the deindustrialization of our society. We\u2019ve sent away good jobs, working-class jobs, many of which were particularly for men. Men who don\u2019t want to go to college and get a bachelor\u2019s degree,\u201d Hawley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s pretty tough in this country right now if you don\u2019t want to go to college and get a bachelor\u2019s degree, it\u2019s pretty tough to find a good-paying job on which you can support a family. And I think we\u2019ve got to own up to the social consequences [of deindustrialization].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Missouri senator added that he thinks the Republican Party is the one to refocus efforts on bringing back manufacturing to America \u2014 creating jobs that can support a family on a single income \u2014 and to incentivize marriage and family formation through tax incentives, as opposed to through government benefits.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12835447\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_20024812561168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12835447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_20024812561168.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks with reporters in Washington, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hawley speaks with reporters in Washington, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe need to make it a goal, a central goal of our policy, to say we need to bring back good-paying jobs, manufacturing jobs, industrial sector jobs to this country for men, and for women too for that matter\u2026 Make it possible for folks who don\u2019t have a college degree to get a job, hold a job and be able to support a family on it,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber two, we need to promote marriage \u2026 I think there should be no marriage penalties in the tax code \u2014 currently the tax code is littered with them \u2026 And I think we need to have a marriage bonus. I would just say that we ought to say to people who get married, \u2018not only are we not going to penalize you, we\u2019re actually going to give you a tax break.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThirdly, I\u2019ve proposed a very generous tax cut in the form of a provisional tax credit for working parents. And I just think that that\u2019s the key \u2026 So I think we want to say to parents, \u2018yeah, we want you to have kids, that\u2019s awesome. We don\u2019t want you to be shut out of having kids because it\u2019s too expensive, because you can\u2019t afford school or childcare, but let\u2019s let the families make the decisions about how they\u2019re going to care for their kids.\u2019 And I think the best way to do that is give working parents a generous tax cut in the form of a generous tax credit for each kid they have to help with those expenses,\u201d Hawley told Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ought to purposefully try and help parents who are having children to shoulder the costs for those children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley reiterated his point that men are falling into unproductive lifestyles at higher rates when they don\u2019t engage with the responsibilities of manhood \u2014 dismissing critics and insisting that there needs to be a conversation around the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see [men] shifting into neutral. And I think that\u2019s bad. I mean, men not taking responsibility for the children that they father is bad, men dropping out of the workforce is bad, men not supporting the women that they say they love is bad. And this gets us to the point about you know, what do they do? If they\u2019re not working, the data say that men who aren\u2019t working or looking for work, what do they do with their spare time? They spend it on \u2018leisure activities.\u2019 They don\u2019t volunteer more, they don\u2019t help with kids, they don\u2019t go serve in their church or synagogue. No, they sit around, and we see this mass spike in pornography use over the last 20 years, 30 years, we see increases in crime, obviously,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s all different kinds of pathologies that go along with men withdrawing, men not sort of picking up and being active and being responsible, and I think the conversation about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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