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Real Men Don’t Hate Drag — Fragile Ones Do
Insecure manhood requires rigid notions of gender and sexuality. Drag challenges both.
Matt Walsh is going to get someone killed. And from what I can tell, he won’t care if he does.
First, it was his obsession with trans folks, for whom the Daily Wire commentator and podcaster has made clear his hatred in recent months. In addition to flatly denying that trans or non-binary persons even exist, Walsh led the attack on Vanderbilt University Hospital for offering gender-affirming care by mischaracterizing that care as genital mutilation done on impressionable teens.
He was lying.
And now, he is lying again in the service of his hatreds — this time aimed at drag performers (most of whom are not trans), and anyone who supports their existence, all of whom he insists are “evil.”
In a recent rant, he suggested hatred of drag queens was pretty much a litmus test for any politician wanting his vote. Apparently, whether they are willing to have such monsters dragged off stage and beaten is the key to Walsh’s support. As he explains, he doesn’t want to “share a planet” with them or anyone who enables their existence.
Which means, by definition, he wants to see them exterminated.
