Women- Biden
Men who do Cardio- Biden
Men who do Weights- Mixed
Bodybuilding and Powerlifting have relatively conservative cultures built around a 'traditional' ideal of masculinity. They also emphasize individuality, working hard to get ahead, things that gel with conservatism.
There is this broad male subculture centered around weightlifting, BJJ, MMA and guns that is very much allied with the American Right, though they also occupy an overlapping Venn Diagram between them and the anti-system populist left. Consider Joe Rogan, who supported Tulsi Gabbard then Bernie Sanders then Jo Jorgensen in 2020.
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The assumed subject of this culture is a straight, young-ish (18-40) dude who’s kind of into fitness of some kind, whether that’s lifting weights, a little jiu-jitsu, or what have you. He probably played sports and currently enjoys watching them. He’s familiar with but not super dedicated to video games and likes beer and maybe some weed from time to time. He may or may not have a college degree, but either way has a solid but not extremely high-paying job. He probably lives in the suburbs, exurbs, or a rural area, rather than a dense metro. He’s probably but not necessarily white. He’s disproportionately likely to have served in the military, and if he hasn’t, he knows people - family or friends - who do or did.
The code of American manhood that’s developing out of this social-media melting pot has some aspects that bear watching: A love of firearms centered on tactical usefulness (for use in what context, exactly?), a vision of muscular physicality, self-defense as a personal obligation, an unquestioning hero-worship of military culture, and far too often, a deep suspicion of people who don’t subscribe to this precise view of being a guy. Support the Troops, and if you don’t, you’re not really a man at all. If cops - quintessential subjects of Bro Culture - are told that they need to be bigger and stronger and quicker on the draw, that they’re basically Troops, and that the targets of violence deserve what they get, what’s the likely outcome of tense interactions between police and the people they’re supposed to serve?
...this kind of Bro Culture is also intimately connected to the emergence of a new kind of American ethnonationalism, rooted in its peculiar conception of masculinity, its collection of lifestyle products, its worship of guns, and its aversion to self-reflection.
I know that a big piece of Donald Trump’s appeal to this demographic, which was genuinely considerable, was rooted in this bluff, not-thinking-too-hard-about-it sense of being a dude. I know that there are millions of other men, mostly young, who inhabit these same online and physical spaces, who are being fed this same vision of American-flag-rifle-coffee-branded masculinity. Racism isn’t real, bro; just fire up the barbecue, grab a kettlebell, put in the work, and watch the game. America is already great, we’re making it great again, and f*** any weakling who says otherwise.
