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President Donald Trump's renaming of the Department of Defense to the Department of War in September 2025 seemed like an empty gesture toward a more violent, offensive military. As time has told, it was a harbinger of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's comical crusade of military re-masculinization that has reached its breaking point.
The name change also began the chronicle of a boy who couldn't be king – or in Hegseth's case – machismo militant dictator.
Hegseth's latest display of hypermasculine leadership comes in the form of a planned live-streamed execution of the Fort Hood shooter, former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, by firing squad on Dec. 3. This act of public violence has drawn bipartisan criticism and proves that Hegseth's hubris – and the type of masculinity it represents culturally – is just vacuous evil.
Manosphere influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking in 2023.
Clavicular, a prominent figure in the manosphere subculture of "looksmaxxing," faces felony charges of drugging and raping a 16-year-old girl in Cape Cod.
Hegseth has faced sexual assault allegations of his own.
An ideology that propagates violence and misogyny was bound to create such violent and depraved people. The manosphere – and everything it touches – was always destined to collapse in on itself.
Hegseth's patriarchal utopia is no different.
The cruelty is the point. Assign it righteousness to give it cause. Take it away, and there's nothing left. It's all rather childish.
Even Trump, someone who revels in cruelty and disorder, has his doubts.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pete-hegseths-masculine-front-just-083125263.html


The name change also began the chronicle of a boy who couldn't be king – or in Hegseth's case – machismo militant dictator.
Hegseth's latest display of hypermasculine leadership comes in the form of a planned live-streamed execution of the Fort Hood shooter, former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, by firing squad on Dec. 3. This act of public violence has drawn bipartisan criticism and proves that Hegseth's hubris – and the type of masculinity it represents culturally – is just vacuous evil.
The masculine urge to regress
As we've seen with the manosphere – online spaces that promote aggressive or traditional masculinity, anti-feminism and the belief that society is biased against men – affirming masculinity through cruelty inevitably leads to more harm. And we're only regressing from here.Manosphere influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking in 2023.
Clavicular, a prominent figure in the manosphere subculture of "looksmaxxing," faces felony charges of drugging and raping a 16-year-old girl in Cape Cod.
Hegseth has faced sexual assault allegations of his own.
An ideology that propagates violence and misogyny was bound to create such violent and depraved people. The manosphere – and everything it touches – was always destined to collapse in on itself.
Hegseth's patriarchal utopia is no different.
The cruelty is the point. Assign it righteousness to give it cause. Take it away, and there's nothing left. It's all rather childish.
Even Trump, someone who revels in cruelty and disorder, has his doubts.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pete-hegseths-masculine-front-just-083125263.html




