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I think he would. He's a gay man who served in the military and is currently starting a family. And he's been doing that. He's been doing the TV circuit railing against JD Vance trying to be who defines what masculinity and family values are and emphasizing that all it takes to be a man is to self identify as one, and all it takes to be a family is love
Most media outlets wouldn't treat him that way because he has a husband, sexist coverage would ensure people only focus on how he's violating masculine norms instead of portraying his masculinity as legitimate.
That's probably true. But he's doing it anyway. I don't even like the guy but that's pretty manly going in the face of adversity like that.
And the outlets he's going on aren't challenging him. They're just giving him a platform. It seems like for the most part (except when he goes on Fox, but that's not "mainstream") the media outlets are totally accepting Pete Buttigieg is a form of manly. I think we're actually having a national dialog right now about what it means to be manly. Even this years big pop culture moment of Kendrick v Drake has centered around what it means to be a man (at least in part) with the winning side saying what it means to be a man is to live authentically and not to perform masculinity. I get where the thread starter is coming from that we shouldn't need this national dialog, because we should be treating people as people and not as totems, but American politics and media culture are intrinsically totemic in nature and so we have to have these national dialogs every so often even if the majority is already advanced beyond that. The fact is that people awaken to truths slower than others because of the cultural context they exist in, and right now the feminist and men's liberation movement have a major opportunity to take center stage and show what preferred pronouns, gender identity, and acceptance are about.
It's positive but he isn't being portrayed as manly or daddy the way Tim Walz is, though, and I do think that comes down to sexism - specifically patriarchal heterocisnormativity. He's gets to be a model minority, that's it.
I will take this into advisement and speak more openly about Pete Buttigieg being manly