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As Bill Maher wrapped up his 700th episode of Real Time, he obtained on his soapbox to mourn the supposed lack of masculinity in media.
During Friday’s ‘New Rules’ section, the comic launched right into a rant about manhood and blamed movie and tv’s “endless parade of eye-roll, short-bus dads” for Democrats shedding the election.
“Let’s make the Father’s Day we just celebrated the last one that takes place in a culture where dads have become such punching bags, literally the last demographic group that TV, ads and movies can still depict as clueless, useless dipshits, basically just another child mom has to look after,” he launched into his sermon.
He blamed the 1987 comedy Three Men and a Baby for the decline of masculinity in tradition, and wish so far as to hyperlink sitcoms like Married with Children, The Simpsons, Modern Family and Malcolm within the Middle, in addition to the Apple TV+ sequence Your Friends and Neighbors, to the rebellion of figures like convicted rapist and intercourse trafficker Andrew Tate.
“And I get it, that this is a correction to centuries of women being deemed the weaker sex,” added Maher. “But how long does the correction last? And when will men stop making me throw up in my mouth with the way pander so negatively?”
After taking some jabs at Cleopatra, Hillary Clinton and Marie Antoinette to help his level, Maher continued, “Besides being historically naive, this cringey pandering is why teenage boys flock to jerks like Andrew Tate.”
“Yes, he’s a huge asshole,” he mentioned, noting Tate’s crimes and big following as a self-proclaimed misogynist. “And your kid thinks he’s cool. Because that’s the choice of role models the American teenage boy has, either performative pussy-hood or the man-osphere. Jesus, can’t the pendulum ever land in the middle in this country.”
Maher concluded, “I’m just saying; men, we’re not completely useless. So, if you want to know what to get dad next Father’s Day, how about a little 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 Real Time is on hiatus for the month of July.