As Bill Maher wrapped up his 700th episode of Actual Time, he obtained on his soapbox to mourn the supposed lack of masculinity in media.
Throughout Friday’s ‘New Guidelines’ phase, the comic launched right into a rant about manhood and blamed movie and tv’s “limitless parade of eye-roll, short-bus dads” for Democrats dropping the election.
“Let’s make the Father’s Day we simply celebrated the final one which takes place in a tradition the place dads have change into such punching luggage, actually the final demographic group that TV, adverts and flicks can nonetheless depict as clueless, ineffective dipshits, principally simply one other baby mother has to take care of,” he launched into his sermon.
He blamed the 1987 comedy Three Males and a Child for the decline of masculinity in tradition, and wish so far as to hyperlink sitcoms like Married with Youngsters, The Simpsons, Fashionable Household and Malcolm within the Center, in addition to the Apple TV+ collection Your Buddies and Neighbors, to the rebellion of figures like convicted rapist and intercourse trafficker Andrew Tate.
“And I get it, that this can be a correction to centuries of girls being deemed the weaker intercourse,” added Maher. “However how lengthy does the correction final? And when will males cease making me throw up in my mouth with the way in which pander so negatively?”
After taking some jabs at Cleopatra, Hillary Clinton and Marie Antoinette to help his level, Maher continued, “Moreover being traditionally naive, this cringey pandering is why teenage boys flock to jerks like Andrew Tate.”
“Sure, he’s an enormous asshole,” he mentioned, noting Tate’s crimes and large following as a self-proclaimed misogynist. “And your child thinks he’s cool. As a result of that’s the selection of function fashions the American teenage boy has, both performative pussy-hood or the man-osphere. Jesus, can’t the pendulum ever land within the center on this nation.”
Maher concluded, “I’m simply saying; males, we’re not fully ineffective. So, if you wish to know what to get dad subsequent Father’s Day, how about a bit respect?”
If Maher is the instance of balanced masculinity, these teenage boys will sadly have to attend one other month for his pearls of knowledge as Actual Time is on hiatus for the month of July.
