Outgoing GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn Sounds the Alarm Over the ‘Soft Metrosexual’…Yes, Really
One-term congressman stirred controversy across the board
One-and-done congressman Madison Cawthorn delivered a valedictory on the House floor which returned to his recurrent themes of toxic masculinity — even after the potentially gay imagery and talk of Washington DC orgies which seem to have sunk his hopes for a second term.
Cawthorn, the North Carolina Republican, lost his bid for re-election in a primary fight earlier this year to Rep-elect Chuck Edwards.
But for much of the early months of his single term, Cawthorn was a prominent member of the right-wing in the House, as outspoken as outrageous Republican colleagues Reps Lauren Boebert, of Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia.
In the case of Cawthorn — paralyzed from a severe car accident before his election to Congress — he focused on issues of hyper-machismo and toxic masculinity, rising to the spotlight for one speech in particular last year, in which he urged mothers to raise their sons as “monsters.”
However, Cawthorn began to run into trouble — even among his fellow Republicans — when earlier this year, he made public claims that other senior lawmakers had invited him to drug-fueled orgies in the nation's capital.
Then, controversially, a political action committee (PAC) released imagery of this political right-winger — known for staunchly preaching conservative Christian values and hyper-machismo — which included a sexually explicit video of a nude Madison Cawthorn with another man.
Although some claimed homophobia, the co-founder of the PAC said otherwise.
“We could give a rat's rear end about his sexuality. It was about the absolute hypocrisy,” the cofounder said.
Now that his time in Congress is coming to an end, Cawthorn chose to return to the themes that once made him a rock star on the far right.
“Our young men are taught that weakness is strength, that delicacy is desirable, and that being a soft metrosexual is more valuable than training the mind, body and soul,” he said in his final floor speech Wednesday. “Social media has weakened us, siphoning our men of their will to fight, to rise in a noble manner, square their jaws and charge once more the breach of life to defend what they love.”
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