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You don’t have to guess what’s happening to American men — the cultural elites are busy rewriting what it means to be a man and calling it progress. Commentators like Ben Shapiro have been warning for years that the left’s campaign against “toxic masculinity” too often crosses into wholesale emasculation, and that this pressure is creating a generation of young men who are confused about their purpose and role.
Look no further than Hollywood and mainstream media, which increasingly portray men as buffoons, sidekicks, or disposable villains, normalizing weakness as virtue while ridiculing strength. That steady drip of cultural messaging is not harmless satire; it trains society to distrust traditional masculinity and to reward men who perform submissiveness for cultural approval.
The damage shows up outside the screen: boys lag behind in school in worrying ways, and too many young men drift into low-productivity work or no work at all — trends that have been the subject of serious public debate about whether our institutions are failing men. If conservatives are serious about rebuilding America, we must face these educational and social trends head-on instead of letting elites pretend everything is fine.
Conservatives should call out the nonsense labels — “toxic masculinity” has been weaponized into a cudgel to shame boys into timidity rather than to reform actual criminal or abusive behavior. Thoughtful critics on the right have long argued that emasculation is not a cure for social ills; the answer is to cultivate responsible, virtuous manhood, not to erase it.
Online, algorithms and niches amplify the worst impulses on both sides, but they’ve been particularly effective at pushing young men into reactive subcultures that reject constructive masculinity in favor of performative grievance. Conservatives must compete in that arena by promoting mentors, apprenticeships, and disciplined communities that give boys dignity, work, and clear pathways to manhood — not by surrendering public institutions to the latest ideological fad.
So what does stopping the emasculation of men look like in practice? It means rebuilding fatherhood through policy and culture, restoring vocational education and civic masculinity in our schools, protecting boys from radical gender curricula, and celebrating real role models in faith, the military, business, and trades. If we don’t offer young men honor, purpose, and accountability, the left will happily fill the gap with hollow performances and cultural contempt — conservatives must lead the restoration.
