Is the "America's Manhood is under attack" a Russian produced or disseminated meme?

[Botany]

It seems to being pushed by the right wing.

[Walleye]

1. When they say manhood they mean the patriarchy

They don’t seem to get it that their large orange baby, is up against a real man in Jack Smith

[pwb]

2. I think so.

Vlad has about 20 comrade congressmen doing his work. IMO.

[LizBeth]

3. Actually, they are literally standing on stage and flooding net saying exactly those words.

So ya, I think it is pretty damn clear it is being pushed.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. The old meme has been around since Betty Friedan

and her book The Feminine Mystique.

As the Sixties progressed, my father was terrified of losing his superiority and claim to rule over all of us in the family. He couldn't delay or stop culture.

[JHB]

5. The Russians may be pumping and amplifying it, but...

...that attitude has been circulating among RW media for decades.

As with the stuff they did in 2016, they didn't invent it, they just cloned their own set of controls.

[Beastly Boy]

6. Russia or not, American males have historically been insecure about their manhood.

"American manhood under attack" is just one manifestation of this insecurity. Failure to deal with women on equal terms, irrational hatred of non-binary lifestyles, obsessive preoccupation with the size of their erection, are all symptoms of the same social conditioning. To a large degree it is probably baked into American society based on its puritan origins, and is independent of foreign influences. One way or another, it is likely to float to the surface every once in a while and take some form of a defensive narrative that would grow or diminish in popularity as time goes by.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. It's a big part of white supremacy, which this country is built on, so the call is coming from

inside the house.

[emulatorloo]

9. With some lgbt+ panic added to the mix.

[CrispyQ]

8. If by American Manhood they mean white men acting & saying anyway & anything they want,

then hell yes it's under attack! This is not just an American problem, though. There is a type of man all over the world, that needs to get the fuck over themself.

Interestingly, these are the very men who have mostly been in charge over time & the ones whose policies we've all been forced to follow, cuz they've had the power & called the shots, & here we are, the entire species, scratch that, the entire globe on an ecological brink & they still think they're better than the rest of us & deserve to be in charge.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

11. We've had to follow it

Because the entire world has spent millennia carrying out a program of Affirmative Action for men.

[Qutzupalotl]

10. What if we just want to punch Nazis in the dick?

[Caliman73]

12. Russians typically amplify existing divisions, they don't make them up...

"America's Manhood" has been a talking point for Conservatives and further right extremists for a long time. The idea that men are being feminized is not only globally historical, but has been a key point of Conservative politics in the United States since the founding.

It is ALWAYS pushed by the right wing. Left leaning people are typically comfortable with changing concepts of femininity and masculinity. We typically exist without too much problem in a nuanced world. It is right wingers who seem to need things defined in a a binary way.

Why would I, as a man, be threatened of particular women are physically stronger than I am, or are better at fixing a car, or at sports? I am good at what I am good at. Better at some things than other people and not as good at others as other people. If "something" threatens your "masculinity" you should FIRST look at yourself and your own concept of your value. You shouldn't blame women, gay people, trans people etc... for making YOU feel bad about yourself.

[Model35mech]

13. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never castrate me

Words could certainly castigate men, sensu reprimand men, which is what I think phrases like "toxic masculinity" are meant to do.

In general, I think everyone should leave the parts package of my manhood out of this...

And I would say that for the men that have above said toxicity, they all too frequently have no shame to be called upon by reprimands.