Guess who's being weird to Tim Walz's son
Guess who's being weird to Tim Walz's son
The right's gleeful cruelty to 17-year-old Gus Walz says it all.
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Sounds about right for the weirdo influencers of the modern GOP.
Walz is good guy, the local coach, his son is proud of him, and his son has been diagnosed with some mental disabilities. This is a normal American family in 2024.
Disability aside, I don't think it's at all unusual for a family member to express emotion like that for such a momentous situation. There's only a few things that gets tears out of me—movies where the dog dies, amazing acts of heroism and selflessness, exhaustion in emergency scenarios—but I'm pretty sure I'd lose it if my father was taking on a national leadership position, there's a huge crowd cheering him, and everyone's saying how great he is.
The far right is obsessed with this image of hyper masculinity from Alex Jones's magic pills to Andrew Tate to AI generated Trump with Superman's figure. Their ideal men in that world do not show emotion and they damn well never cry even in happiness, that stuff is for women and other weaklings that need a strong man to run their lives. And it's all based in insecurity.
They have no idea that people with real strength of character are secure in themselves and can show tenderness and vulnerability knowing that does not define them as weak.
So true. For me, one of the most masculine things a man can do is cry in public without shame. It shows that they’re secure enough in their emotions to know that crying is a completely natural and usually quite helpful thing for people of any gender to do.
It is okay for macho men to cry and show every emotion available - “Macho Man” Randy Savage