Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) has gone viral for a speech he recently made in which he complained about the demasculinization of young men in the modern world.
“Our culture today is trying to completely demasculate all the young men,” he told his audience. A video clip of the speech was shared by Right Wing Watch but it is unknown where and when it was recorded.
“You can look at the testosterone levels in young men today and they are lower than throughout all of history,” Cawthorn continued.
“There’s a lot of reasons for this that we can get into later. But my friends, they’re trying to de-masculate the young men in our country because they don’t want people who are going to stand up.
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“All you moms here – the ones who I said are the most vicious in our movement – if you are raising a young man, please raise them to be a monster,” he said, to wild applause and cheers.
Complaining that “our culture today is trying to completely demasculate all the young men,” Rep. Madison Cawthorn issues a plea to parents: “If you are raising a young man, please raise them to be a monster.” pic.twitter.com/v7b0pN3RA3
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 18, 2021
On the same day that was posted, Cawthorn also posted a photo of himself with North Carolina’s controversial Lieutenant Governor, Mark Robinson.
Robinson has faced calls to quit after speeches he made emerged in which he labeled homosexuality “filth”.
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Cawthorn captioned the photo, “Pray for our Lieutenant Governor.”
Pray for our Lieutenant Governor, @markrobinsonNC. pic.twitter.com/od1aKwddvH
— Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) October 18, 2021
Since being elected to Congress in 2020, Cawthorn, 26, has aligned himself with the far-right of the Republican Party.
He has frequently made headlines for the wrong reasons: Such as the Instagram photos he posted visiting Hitler’s vacation residence, which he said had been on his “bucket list for a while.”
During his campaign for congress, several women came forward with accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment dating back to Cawthorn’s college days (all of which he denied).
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He is among the Republicans to question the result of the 2020 election. On January 6, 2021, he was among those to address the crowd of protestors in DC before they stormed the capitol building, telling them, “this crowd has some fight.”
Online, many were unimpressed by his latest “monster” comments.
I’d never shove someone out of their wheelchair but I’m willing to make an exception for him. And then I’d tell him it’s not my fault, mum raised me to be a monster and he should just “rise”.
— Zustand Zwei (@ZustandZwei) October 18, 2021
Um, as a mom of 3 boys, no. I will raise them to ge respectful, peaceful, loving, critical-thinking strong humans.
— Karen Burkum (@LovingtheChaos) October 18, 2021
Monstrosity is not masculinity. Monstrosity has no gender.
— Alex Z (@RallySim) October 18, 2021
As the father of a son and a man myself, I have never felt immaculated. Sounds like some people need to learn how to love themselves. Maybe they could let go of hate.
— Michael Johnson (@mj2v) October 18, 2021
Does he mean raise them to be Lady Gaga fans? Because I’m definitely doing that.
— Rachel Spensieri (@RSpensieri) October 18, 2021
white-queer-african
This “man” needs to be taken out of his wheelchair, muzzled and put into a straitjacket and locked away until the end of his oxygen thieving days.
I can think of quite a few more lunatics that should join him!
Donston
Honestly, he just comes off as a deeply insecure and tortured man. They complain about “snowflakes”, but this type of shit is the epitome of “snowflake syndrome”. While no one would have been clocking for him if he wasn’t a decent looking white guy in a wheelchair, including this site.
Chrisk
“no one would have been clocking for him if he wasn’t a black guy in a wheelchair, including this site.”….see the racism when I reverse it?
How many young and good looking black guys do you know in the Republican Party that say stupid things and get lots of attention for it? If Queerty is ignoring them then yes it would be racist.
Heywood Jablowme
Before now I’ve always resisted the “closet case” theory about Mad Wheels. But these “monster” comments strike me as the gayest stuff he’s ever said! Sounds like pure projection to me, he likes mean rough monster guys, yeah!
Matthewnow
Tired of the thinly veiled racist comments directed at white people. Having said that, Cawthorn should be tested for a brain stem injury because he’s f*cked in the head.
Donston
Considering the amount of comments here that are rather racist towards non white people, you should consider it balance. But ultimately, acknowledging white privilege and acknowledging how much “queer media” is obsessed with “masculine”, white (mostly “straight presenting”) guys ain’t racist. It’s very obvious realities. And one of those realities is that this site would not keep putting out articles about this dude regularly if he were non white, and he wouldn’t have quickly got the status and attention that he did if he were non-white and not conventionally good-looking. These are just realities.
BigJohnSF
They’ve got an article about Jussie Smollet today – doesn’t that fill your quota?
toronto
Is he just angry that his own carelessness caused his accident and now his d**k does not work?
Max
also probably nobody wants to touch it.
Den
Well, he IS married, and some of his accusations of sexual harassment date from after his accident. So his dick may well work. Thankfully, we will never know. It is funny how hate and anger in a person rise to the surface and destroy any attractiveness a person might possess. I thought he was handsome when I first saw a picture of him. Now he looks ugly, and stupid, getting worse by the second.
Kangol2
There are numerous right-wing homophobes in Congress out there. Two things that set Cawthorn (and Taylor Greene and Boebert, etc.) apart is that his comments are often are so imbecilic he makes it clear how little he knows about the US, its history, or the US. Constitution, and he often creates spectacles around himself, like this stunt with Robinson. Cawthorn is clearly starved for attention, extremely insecure, and full of fear and hate, and it’s easy to dismiss him, but he is a member of Congress and if the GOP regain power in 2022, Cawthorn will be empowered to do all kinds of damage. Remember Aaron Schock?
I do wish Queerty would also focus on some of the very dangerous but lesser known homophobes like that Texas right-wing creep, Republican former solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell, who is the architect of Texas’s extreme, unconstitutional anti-abortion bill and who is actively going after gay/LGBTQ rights and equality next. As VivaRedLight reported, Mitchell “argued in a Supreme Court brief that the decisions that legalized same-sex relations and same-sex marriages in all 50 states should both be overturned along with Roe v. Wade, the historic Supreme Court decision that recognized the right to abortion.”
Also, Peter Thiel, who is gay, is allegedly bankrolling some of the most extreme GOP, “Big Lie” pro-Don the Con candidates running in 2022. Many people are unaware of what’s going on behind the scenes, so perhaps Queerty could focus on these serious but hidden threats alongside the likes of obvious anti-LGBTQ politicians Cawthorn, Robinson, etc.
jcool
i’m curious about this testosterone level survey he mentions.
Max
maybe he can taste the difference???
Chrisk
I’d like to know how they’d know the whole history of testosterone levels since it wasn’t discovered till 1935.
Jim
Poor Madison. He has doubts about his own masculinity when he should be doing something about his humanity.
LumpyPillows
I usually don’t like comments that are just mean, but I’ll make an exception for this one. 🙂
Mister P
The audience applauded at his comment to raise “hyper masculine monsters.”
Mad Catheter is a monster and wants to normalize it.
BaltoSteve
All this is pure pandering to segments of his party. After all, it’s the party of “Lets roll back society to the 1950’s.” It was a time when women kept to the kitchen, and Men (only white men) were the unquestioned rulers of their domain. It was just after WWII had ended and you had all these young men who saw all these Hero’s come home. And now those younger brothers and sons couldn’t prove how manly they were in the Theater of War. So what could they do? They did stupid, toxic, homophobic, misogynistic shit just to prove they were MEN. And it was all chalked up to boys being boys.
ARTmark
He was obviously plagiarizing an old pamphlet that had been sent to Mrs. Fred Trump…..
Creamsicle
Put a wig on him and he could be Phyllis Schlafly
Ken A.
He can’t get it up anymore so he’s compensating. I guess dads don’t raise children in his eyes.
Fahd
Let’s hope this fringe advice from a fringe politician will be ignored by decent people. In modern societies, boys raised to be monsters usually don’t succeed academically and don’t go on to earn as much as their college graduate sisters. Instead, many become substance abusers who die prematurely.
Celtic
The correct term is Emasculate, although he does get a pass for the alternative word he used. As to this decrepit toady, he and his Lt. Gov. ally are the real filth in society. I am stunned, actually, that Cawthorn would be photo’d with a black man. Strange bedfellows. That term “bedfellows” might be appropriate here because I suspect each is a queer in denial.
NOLA Paul
Where does he get his data on the testosterone levels of young men?! So dumb.
Prax07
Cawthorn’s just mad the only thing he’s good for in bed is sucking, finger banging, and bottoming. He’s a top dammit and he can’t get his aggressions out that way since his accident.
skyboy63
The jizz that made Madison Cawthorn should have been shot into a Kleenex.
Alex_S
Queerty seemingly will never stop promote this jerk.
Jack Meoff
I just looked up an article on a site called Big Think that talks about the drop in testosterone levels and it seems it is true but nothing to worry about. Cawthorn is just reaching to find sata to support his homophobia.
Hank31
It’s nothing to worry about if you are already emasculated and fem.
Mr-DJ
Little Monsters for Gaga = OK.
Otherwise he is trying to infect them with his namesake: “MadCaw” Disease.
He should be removed from office for that alone!
FridM
I’ll take my Viking hyper-masculinity, drill a hole in his chair and pound him like the little bitch that he is…..Valhalla!!!
Hank31
lol. To effeminate men like the writers at Queerty, normal masculinity probably does seem monstrous.
Den
As opposed to a dullard like you who is sadly unaware that masculinity is a cultural construct, and varies from individual to individual having very little to do with testosterone levels.
Define “normal masculinity”, let’s see what your level of intellectual acuity is child.
BrownFriedRice
Ironic coming from a man whose dick doesn’t work.
LumpyPillows
His name is Madison. He’s pretty. He has to be carried. I think I see his problem with men who are not masculine…like him.
Den
It is pretty well documented that Testosterone levels are dropping in populations, and most extremely in the developed nations. But the reason has more to do with republican policies than with not raising men to be “monsters”. Undermining consumer protections, regulation of business, environmental protections and so on has lead to an inability to deal with the proliferation of estrogen analogues and other endocrine disrupters in our water and in consumer goods. The flip side of this is the slowly decreasing age at which girls enter puberty.
But that is way over the head of a dullard like Cawthorne.