Name: Is There an Attack on Masculinity, or Just Changing Times?
Uploaded: 2024-12-30T15:30:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is There an Attack on Masculinity, or Just Changing Times?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is There an Attack on Masculinity, or Just Changing Times?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-30. Transcript available.

it all it feels a lot of times like there's an attack on being a man 100 you
know you're
like if you feel like these days if you almost if you're a kid that's not bi
then you're not
even going to be welcome at school no you know and i don't know if that's true
i don't talk to kids
you know i don't i don't know that but it's like you know you get this this
feeling sometimes like
um i don't know i don't know what i'm talking about well to your point did you
have the
presidential fitness awards when you were in yeah i got badge one you got a
number on i got badge
one badge two and i had a growth spurt and i couldn't do the pull-ups and i
trained for a year
pull-ups and i got strong again and now the the awards were done away with
because it was sauce
fat shaming so and if you walk down the halls of nyu you're going to see all
these support groups for
women yeah you know black women in consulting golden seeds women in venture
capital there were no support
groups for men yeah and i don't think men have a place in our political world i
think the far right
is kind of telling men to be quite frankly a little bit coarse and cruel
it's toughness and strength gone a little bit overboard but on the far left
their definition and
their of masculinity and their advice to men is to be more like a woman that
doesn't work either
yeah so we need to re-embrace the notion i mean i i say jokingly when russian
troops come
pouring over the ukrainian border you want some of that big dick energy oh yeah
there's nothing wrong
with being i physically strong i think any man under the age of 30 our bone
structure and that double
twitch muscle with this amazing substance called testosterone pulled over it is
a amazing thing
you're going to look back on your physique right now and your strength and you're
going to wish and
you kind of look this way that you were a monster any man under the age of 30
should be able to walk
into any room and know that if shit got real they could either kill and eat
everybody or outrun them
yeah and that is a wonderful feeling it'll make you less prone to mental
illness it'll make you
more attractive mates less likely to be depressed and you'll be that guy that
breaks up fights at bars
not that's insecure right this is strength re-embracing strength re-embracing
protection re-embracing initiating relationships i force my kids i don't do
this anymore because
they've had enough of it but when we left the house i used to say i'm not gonna
let them back in unless
they talk to a stranger and it was easy for one of them it was hard for the
other i'm like just go
up to them and pet their dog and say what kind of dog it is because your
ability to initiate contact
is key to finding a job it's not easy to email strangers or go into a strange
interview
your ability to express interest romantic interest while making someone feel
safe
right demonstrating excellence where does a guy demonstrate excellence right
now doesn't go into
work doesn't go to church right isn't playing sports right isn't going to
college so where do men
demonstrate excellence and attach to relationships but there is there's we talk
a lot about misogyny
it's a huge problem it has been for a long time but we don't talk about is misandry
and that is
misandry a hate hate of men there's generally yeah if you were to talk have you
ever heard the term toxic
femininity people don't use that term but toxic masculinity it's almost like it's
one become one
word oh i feel there are places i feel embarrassed to even be in because i feel
like people look at me
and think like oh this guy thinks he's some kind of man or something you know
and that would be true
but that happens to me in new york city sometimes you feel that way here yep
there's certain places
i'll walk in and just by the ambiance of like the people that work there or
something i'll think
that and i'm not saying that that's real but it could just be perceived in my
head but i feel like
i almost have to play down being a man or tip i'm going to be like accepted in
this space you know
um or feel welcome here um yeah there's definitely but there's definitely uh uh
and if you look at
if you look at the stats though men are really struggling like we don't have a
male homeless
problem i'm sorry we don't have a homeless from we have a male homeless problem
yeah we have an opiate
problem but we really have a male opiate problem three out of four homeless
three out of four addicts
are men and if you had four out of five people killing themselves they were in
any one special interest
group we would do something about it and there's a lack of empathy because of
the 2 000 year head start
we've had on women there's a lack of empathy for who had it mended oh yeah we've
been oh come on we
even when i grew up you know when i came with it professional age in the 90s 98
at least of
venture capital went to the 24 of the population that were white heterosexual
males okay so men had
that i see what you're talking about until the last 30 years men have had
literally a 2 000
year head start but because of my advantage does that mean a 19 year old male
should be punished
for it right there just isn't a recognition that 19 year old a 19 year old male
with a single mother
in appalachia he's got no advantage as a matter of fact he's kind of
disadvantaged right now oh well
there's an attack there's certainly an attack on white males it feels like and
then if you're white
you can't there's you can't be like hey can we do a white help group you know
what i'm saying
because suddenly you're racist if you you know there's definitely this like shaming
of like
being in white skin you know and it's like we're constantly doing that like reliving
the past or
refocusing on the past and using it as a scope to aim at the present you know
and it's not very
uh fair and i definitely see it as a lot of people feel embarrassed to be white
you know um and that's a
shame you know because you didn't choose to be white and a lot of people white
people we didn't have
shit dude you know what i'm saying like at least when i was growing up i felt
like if you were black
people like like you at least had the like well i'm fucked because of society
you know but if you
were white you're just like people were like you didn't even have an excuse you
know if you weren't
doing good you're like well how do you not do good you know you're like i don't
know it's a nuanced
conversation though theo because yes i know it's nuanced i'm you know i'm kind
of generalizing i'm
not trying to correlate anything i'm just saying yeah you can't make a hey
white people need help
also group but but we're talking about the bias against males our education
system the business
i'm in is highly biased against men or boys 70 to 80 percent of primary school
teachers are women
who are they going to naturally champion someone who reminds them of themselves
what are the behaviors
we promote in school be organized be a pleaser sit still you're basically
describing a girl they're
more per capita female fighter pilots than there are male kindergarten teachers
we don't need male
kindergarten teachers i don't think oh sure we do you think so young men need
male role models right i
agree with that yeah i think we need a pe teacher with some short shorts you
know what i'm saying he's
kind of you know who doesn't want to go home to his wife but i don't know if we
need if i'd have
walked into a kindergarten you know i mean but i still keep in touch with a lot
of my teachers i
had a lot of affinity for them whether they were male or women i did have male
middle school teachers
i don't know would i'd be alarmed if there was a male kindergarten teacher but
an example of that the
bias a boy is on a risk on a behavior adjusted basis to be is twice as likely
to be suspended you
have a girl and a boy two different times same infraction cheating on the
chemistry test the boy is
twice as likely to be suspended as the girl the black boy is five times as
likely to be suspended so a lot
of the issues we're talking about self-harm uh depression um lack of lack of
success in school
is really difficult among young boys and it's even more acute among non-white
now when you get to college
the whole dei thing right uh 60 years ago there were only 12 black people at
princeton harvard and
yale combined that was a problem so giving them the advantage or a lift up with
race-based affirmative
action was the right thing to do 60 years ago right now this year two-thirds of
harvard's freshman class
identifies as non-white 70 of those people however come from dual parent upper
income homes so when
you're letting in the daughter of a private equity taiwanese billionaire that's
not diversity that's not
helping anybody right so what i would argue is we affirmative action is a
wonderful thing but it
should be based on color but that color is green right and that is a white kid
from appalachia
deserves just as much i'm a beneficiary of affirmative action i got pell grants
in 1994 oh yeah i got them
there you go i think that's the way to go because the wonderful thing about
america today and we don't
celebrate america's progress enough young people want to shitpost it as if it
we've made no progress we've
made extraordinary progress and as up as we are we're less up than i believe
any nation in the world
you would rather be born in america and this is a good thing you'd rather be
born today and the stats
show this you'd rather be born gay or non-white than poor the people who need a
hand up the best way to
identify who is most screwed and is going to face the biggest obstacles and
deserves the most additional
resources and kind of unfair help is a poor kid we need to get out of identity
politics yeah and focus on
economics yeah