Vox: “When voters decide between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden this November, they’ll be choosing between two parties, two histories, and two very different visions of America. They’ll also be deciding between two versions of masculinity. Trump has made a certain kind of stereotypical manliness core to his campaign ever since 2016. He bragged about his penis size during one debate, physically invaded Hillary Clinton’s space during another, and repeatedly insulted his opponents’ ‘toughness,’ ‘energy,’ and ‘stamina.'”
“Biden, at least during his 2020 campaign, has set out to show voters a different kind of masculinity — and to subtly attack Trump’s. In campaign appearances and at last week’s Democratic National Convention, he’s cast himself as ‘a dependable serious protector’ and is ‘contrasting that to Trump’s brute-force, reckless approach,’ Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a history professor at Calvin University who has studied white evangelicals’ views of masculinity, told Vox. As the campaign continues, and the two candidates debate each other, the conflict between their two brands of masculinity will surely be thrown into even higher relief. And Americans — without the option of a female candidate this time around — will have to decide what kind of man they want in the White House in 2021.”