The Left has been telling us for years that men are the problem. Not violent criminals. Not abusers. Just men. Masculinity itself. They’ve labeled the very traits that built civilizations’ strength, courage, and leadership as toxic. And now we’re living with the results: softer men, bolder criminals, and a culture that shames protectors instead of thanking them.

Hurt someone’s feelings and you’re worse than a criminal. But the same liberals who will start a firestorm over a joke will shrug at actual violence on the street. They’ve built a culture that coddles criminals and scolds the people who step in to stop them.

Just like woke leftism took over our universities and institutions, it also spread its tentacles into our criminal justice system, prioritizing leniency and bail reform over law and order. The failure of leftist criminal justice reform has shown us that what’s true of wokeness in the classroom and boardroom is also true of wokeness on the street: the average American suffers so that leftist activists can feel better about themselves.

Woke city leaders and soft-on-crime district attorneys put Americans in harm’s way for the sake of their ideology. Criminals who should be behind bars are often set free to again terrorize the streets thanks to lenient sentences or low bail. – Daily Wire

Big Balls in a World of Eggshells

That’s why Edward “Big Balls” Coristine matters. He’s 19. He made his name working for Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. In Washington, D.C., a gang of ten teenagers surrounded him and the woman he was with, demanding his car. He shoved her into the car for safety and faced the mob himself. They beat him bloody.

That’s masculinity. That’s protection. And to the Left, it’s unacceptable.

The plight of American hero “Big Balls” has set off a firestorm in the Republican Party.

Americans have HAD it with the violence happening in our great cities. This kid is a hero! pic.twitter.com/uiirDnufsQ

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 7, 2025

The Softening of Men Didn’t Happen Overnight

The slow dismantling of masculinity has been going on for decades.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, zero-tolerance rules taught boys that defending themselves would get them punished just as harshly as the aggressor. The lesson was clear: keep your head down and take it.

Schools traded competition for everyone’s a winner ribbons. Rough play and sports like dodgeball were banned in some places for being too aggressive. Boys were told their natural drive to compete was dangerous.

By the 2010s, colleges were teaching that traits like assertiveness, competitiveness, and risk-taking were harmful. The American Psychological Association’s 2019 guidelines outright warned against traditional masculinity.

TV and commercials replaced competent male heroes with clueless, childish men who always needed rescuing. The message sank in: men aren’t protectors, they’re punchlines.

Joe Rogan was sick of being lectured six years ago by the toxic masculinity messaging shoved in our faces.

High-profile cases turned Good Samaritans into defendants. If you helped, you risked being sued or charged. Doing nothing became the safer option.

This culture handed power to people who react to conflict like toddlers denied dessert. If something offends them, they want it censored. If someone disagrees, they cry harassment. And when a man steps in to stop real harm, they brand him a villain.

Ask Daniel Penny. A Marine veteran, he stopped a man from threatening subway passengers in New York. He faced manslaughter charges before a jury cleared him. The media still treated him like a criminal.

Masculinity Is Back — And It’s Not Asking Permission

For all the Left’s efforts to shame and silence men, they can’t stop reality from proving them wrong. Men like Big Balls and Daniel Penny are making masculinity great again, not as some campaign slogan, but as a fact of life.

These men didn’t ask for permission to act. They didn’t hold a focus group to see if defending others would play well on social media. They saw a threat, and they put themselves in harm’s way. That’s how it’s supposed to work.

And they’re not alone. Men routinely tackle armed robbers, pull strangers from burning cars, or protect kids from predators. These moments don’t always go viral, but they matter.

Masculinity is back because the truth is back: we need protectors. We need strength. We need men willing to be offensive to criminals and dangerous to those who would harm the innocent. That’s not toxic. That’s the point.

This war on masculinity has made our streets less safe. Criminals are bolder. Bystanders record crimes instead of stopping them. The Left would rather live in a world where nobody gets their feelings hurt than in one where people are actually safe.

We should raise boys to protect, not apologize. Courage should be honored, not punished. The men who step in to defend others are not toxic. They’re essential.

Big Balls was mocked before he was attacked. Afterward, the Left’s problem with him stayed the same. But it should change. No amount of safe space talk will stop a gang in the street. Only action will.

And the people willing to take that action? They’re the ones the crybabies have been trying to tear down for decades.

Carry on, men.

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