Niall Ferguson, Ted Cruz, and the Politics of Masculinity

[cali]

Niall Ferguson dismisses economist John Maynard Keynes's work as the product of an "effete" sensibility more interested in talking ballet than building a family with his wife.

Daily Caller writer Matthew K. Lewis blasts coverage of the gun control debate and declares, "Newsrooms should also hire a few journalists who aren't effete liberal p*ssies."

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas dismisses fellow Republicans who considered voting for a de minimis gun-control bill as "squishes."

Welcome to the place where public policy-making runs smack into the culturally charged policing of the boundaries of masculine identity.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/niall-ferguson-ted-cruz-and-the-politics-of-masculinity/275580/

[truebrit71]

1. Yeah, because both Niall and Ted are so 'butch'...

Puh-leez....