Manhood, eh?
Trump’s acceptance speech was a mishmash of self-love, protestations of toughness, and prefabricated lies.
prospect.org
>>>Last month, I devoted
an article to a study that had been published in 2020 in the
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, to which my attention had been drawn by one of Tom Edsall’s
New York Times columns. The authors, I wrote
sought out the Google Trends search data for the 12 months immediately preceding the 2016 election
for erectile dysfunction, penis size, penis enlargement, hair loss, hair plugs, testosterone, and Viagra—gender-affirming care, of a sort—and labeled them as indices of Precarious Manhood. They produced a map of the United States showing where those Google searches were most common (Appalachia and the Deep South). And by running the standard statistical regression analyses, they found a strong predictive correlation between the rates of those Google searches and the votes for Donald Trump in 2016 (though, of course, those were also votes against Hillary Clinton).<<<