Having played Hercules on TV through the mid – late 90s, Kevin Sorbo was once considered the poster boy for masculinity. So I guess it makes sense that he feels like he needs to speak up on the perceived lack of masculinity in Hollywood right now.

In an op-ed for Fox News, Sorbo says there has been an ‘anti-men’ ethos permeating through American films in the last two decades, and uses a line from 2004’s The Incredibles to make his point.

In the film, Elastigirl says ‘Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don’t think so’, and Sorbo believes this ‘underlies every major entry for cinema’s largest metonym’.

Everywhere we look, bold, confident, self-assured females upstage passive men who recede quietly into the background. Into the basement. Into the past.

Fathers, in particular, have become the butt of every woke Hollywood jab, the bumbling, useless idiots who contribute nothing to their families or communities, but sacrifice themselves as objects of ridicule.

I’m not sure why he’s saying that Hollywood has been ‘anti-men’ for the last two decades considering superhero movies starring unbelievably hench, alpha men have been dominating Hollywood for that time period. Maybe he just means that he’s not getting any work? In any case, Sorbo wants to see more ‘men we’d want our sons to emulate and daughters to date’.

Society today seriously misunderstands masculinity. On the one hand, we love to normalize androgynous, Billy Porter-type men who sport skirts and poofy dresses.

GQ’s 2019 best-dressed man, Timothée Chalamet, for example, often wears clothes that, well… let’s just say your grandfather wouldn’t have been caught dead dressed like Chalamet.

Well, can’t argue with that. My granddad definitely wouldn’t have been caught dead dressed like Chamalet. Sorbo believes ‘alcohol, drugs, video games, porn and other entertainment’ are to blame for the current state of masculinity:

Boys, especially, need heroes. It’s part of why storytelling has been an essential part of culture throughout history, particularly through the medium of filmmaking in this generation.

It’s time for the world’s entertainment capital to reintroduce good men: men who love their wives and children, protect them, fight for what’s right, and speak up for the powerless. Men who, above all, have overcome their own selfish desires and are free to put others first.

Just don’t be dressed like Timothée Chalamet when you’re doing all that, OK?

For the mum who named her son ‘Alpha Mael Armstrong’ because it was the manliest name she could think of, click HERE. Happy now, Kevin?