Problem Is, There’s No Real Consensus On “Healthy Masculinity” Either

And herein lies a new wrinkle.

Ted Bauer
3 min readSep 20, 2024

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Above is Jason Kelce acting the fool dancing about 30 minutes before Monday Night Countdown started a few days ago, which went viral, because the Kelces are ruling pop culture these days. Once it went viral, a few people (I believe you’d call them “trolls”) attacked Kelce for maybe being drunk, for being a man-child, for being immature, “how is this guy a father of three girls,” etc.

I saw some of that stuff roll in, and Kelce subsequently address it, and thought: “Hmm, that’s weird. I thought we had put Jason and Travis in the ‘healthy masculinity’ bucket.” I think after that Bills-Chiefs Divisional Game last January, we had a collective love affair with him.

There will always be various haters, but it seems like some of the Internet is moving Jason away from the “healthy masculinity” bucket. And conservative guys cannot have Travis in that bucket, because he dates Taylor (endorsed Kamala) and he promoted the vaccine (“got the jab”). So for half the population…

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Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.