The Dissenter

The Dissenter

Masculinity Always Offends Effeminate Men - Case in Point

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Jeff
Oct 24, 2025
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My dad was a fire chief. When I was a kid, I didn’t have to look far to find real men—men who handled real-world problems with real strength. I remember watching the evening news and seeing my dad holding small children, covered in soot, after pulling them out of burning homes.

He didn’t do it to “beat his chest.” He didn’t do it for applause. He did it because he was a man—and the natural byproduct of being a man is masculinity.

That’s what manhood looked like to me as a child. Strength. Resolve. The instinct to preserve and protect. The kind of dominant presence that warns evil to think twice before it moves.

But for effeminate men like Mike Cosper, childhood memories of masculinity must look very different. To him, strength is just aggression in disguise. Courage is toxic. Conviction is cosplay. For men like Cosper, the highest virtue is passive submission to an overtly feminized worldview that despises anything resembling testosterone.

There’s a reason America became the strongest nation in the world—and it isn’t because we had girls like Mike Cosper running around cosplaying as U.S. Marines. It is because our men were strong. We had strong fathers, strong soldiers, strong preachers, and strong convictions.

Our nation was built by men who didn’t apologize for their masculinity—they wielded it in defense of what was good.

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