For someone pretending to be tough guys, Fox's Mark Levin and Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley sure are fragile when it comes to anyone daring to mention the issue of "toxic masculinity."

During this Christmas weekend's show, Levin brought on Hawley to discuss his godawful book, Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, and from the reviews, the book, along with this discussion, contains a whole lot of lecturing liberals about how they're supposedly destroying American men and making them lazy with what they're taught in school, asking them to be heaven forbid be tolerant of transgendered people, and that "masculinity is under siege":

In Manhood, the Missouri senator argues that men are failing, that American masculinity is under siege by “the left” (he rarely gets more specific), and that the solution to this crisis is Bible study and a resurrected appreciation for bygone masculine virtues like courage and strength, while leaving the caregiving professions to the ladies. [...]

While Hawley isn’t wrong when he recognizes that something’s up with men, he wildly misses the mark on exactly what that something is. Specifically, he advocates a return to ancient values. He thinks all men need to get married, as a man’s job is to take a “vow” and then “endure” (which feels unnecessarily rude to his own wife). He mocks men who live with their parents, critiques unemployed men (especially those hooked on painkillers), and shames a former student for admitting that he didn’t feel ready to have kids. To be honest, I’m not sure I can imagine a less productive message than encouraging men to become fathers before they’re ready. Hawley is only interested in helping men live the exact same life that he himself leads, even if that life isn’t available (or even desirable) to them. According to recent studies, it turns out that a slight majority of Americans did not attend Yale Law School or receive campaign donations from Peter Thiel.

Levin, of course thinks Hawley's books is one of the greatest things he's ever read, and after encouraging people to go buy it, here's part of their discussion about the book where they're attacking liberals, and going after the First Gentleman Doug Emhoff:

LEVIN: You say there is a crisis of manhood, what do you mean by that?

HAWLEY: I mean Mark that America needs stronger men. You look at the statistics, we've record numbers of suicides among men. We've record levels of depression, record levels of drug abuse and alcohol abuse. At the same time, we've got more and more men are out of the workforce, they're not even trying to work, they're not having families or their leaving their families.

If we want to end child poverty in America, put fathers back in the homes providing for their kids. If we want to end the childhood crime epidemic, you know, teenagers, the crimes, the violence, put a father back in the home. This book is just about how we need men to be strong, we need them to step up, we need them to take responsibility, and the lies the leftists on left is telling by saying that manhood is inherently toxic, and that to be a man is to in and of itself, you know, make the world worse. That's just not true. We need to be sending the opposite message.

LEVIN: I get the sense the Democrat party, Biden, Harris and the rest of them, they're really at war with men. They issue executive orders about women, about transgender. They issue fiats based on ethnicity, based on race, and men are always attacked, including by, what do we call him? The Second Gentleman, Harris' husband, as you point out, men are toxic. I feel like men are under constant attack by the left, the Democrat party and the media. Am I wrong about that?

HAWLEY: No you're not wrong. I think the ideology of the left now Mark, and for decades now, has been that there's something inherently wrong with masculinity, and so they went to educate our kids out of it. Listen, I've got two little boys at home, they are ten and eight now, and I write about them in the book, and you look at what our kids are taught in schools.

I mean, by the time they go to preschool, for heaven sake they're taught if they're a boy, if they want to be aggressive, if they want to talk about guns, that's bad! They need to be medicated. They need to be quieted down. When they get a little older they're taught manhood is inherently dangerous, that it contributes to climate change, that they need to renounce their masculinity.

You see this ideology, it permeates our media, our culture, all driven by the left, and then wonder why is it that more and more men are not pursuing education, more and more men more men are not pursuing work. We've got to tell the truth, which is that we need strong men in this country. We need them to go out there and work. We need them to start a family. We need them to provide, and if you want to change America for the better, get men to be strong again, to take on their responsibilities and be leaders.

LEVIN: Senator, do you think that this is part of the war on religion, the nuclear family, sort of a Marxist ideology? All of these government programs seems to stress the breakup of the family. You know, you get more money if there's not a father in the house and so forth, and so, what do you make of that?

HAWLEY: Yeah, I think this is totally a part of the left's new Marxism, and you've written about this Mark. It's a Marxist, they're neo-Marxist ideology that says that there is no such thing as male or female. It says again if you want to be a man and you want to show the traditional traits of masculinity, that there's something wrong with you. They want to break up the family. And there is a religious aspect to it.

You know the neo-Marxists hate the legacy of faith in this country. They particularly don't like the Bible. They don't like its influence on our culture. And that's why in the book I say listen, if you want to talk about what it looks like to be a good man, there is no better place to turn to than the tradition of the Bible, which is one so many Americans share has been such a powerful influence for good in our culture.

And so what I do is, I just open up that tradition. I say let's look at the tradition of the Bible that so many of us share, that's been so powerful, and look about what it means, look at what it means, to be a good man who provides, who protects, who builds thing, who contributes and that's really what the book is about.

Here we go again with the Marxist name calling nonsense. If someone asked either of them what the definition of a Marxist is, I'm betting they couldn't actually tell you. Here's the statement by Doug Emhoff that has their hair on fire:

Doug Emhoff speaks out about toxic masculinity and supporting wife Kamala Harris:

Speaking to anchor Dana Bash, Emhoff revealed that he’s “definitely” trying to lessen this stigma, after entering his role as second gentleman and seeing an inaccurate depiction of what a man should do throughout his career.

“You really see that not all men naturally would do this, and would push back,” he explained in the clip, shared via People. “There’s this toxicity, this masculine idea of what a man is that’s out there that is just not correct. And that’s something that you really see when you’re doing this [job].”

He went on to explain that he wants to “push back” on the belief that being married to a woman who has a more important job makes him less of a man.

When asked what masculinity meant to him, Emhoff acknowledged how it was about caring for his loved ones and not being penalised for his compassion towards them.

“Masculinity is loving your family, caring about your family and being there for your family and supporting them each and every way,” he said. “And no one would say I’m not tough and no one would ever accuse me of not being there and sticking up for those that I love, but I also care about people. I’m compassionate, empathetic.”

Emhoff further described how toxic masculinity can be an issue, adding: “So we’re kind of mixing up this concept that if somehow a man shows kindness or empathy or consideration for others, that’s somehow not masculine and that is just not okay. That’s just not true.”

The horror... he supports his wife in her job as Vice President. Hawley is long on hectoring and short on any policy positions that might actually make the lives of the people he pretends to care about any better.