HEATHER MAC DONALD: Against Fear. President Trump’s handling of his coronavirus diagnosis models positive masculinity—rational and unbowed. So of course it offends today’s media elite:
Under today’s safetyism mentality, sacrifice and risk-taking become unthinkable. The martial virtues of courage and stoicism have been sidelined and pathologized. . . . Under our feminized ethos, showing resoluteness during a crisis, reassuring the public about one’s well-being, are no longer positive traits in a leader; they are violations of maximal risk aversion.
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