Jerry Seinfeld mentioned on a podcast this week that he likes “an actual man” and misses “dominant masculinity,” angering a substantial a part of the net inhabitants. (You possibly can watch the video beneath.)
“Nothing says frail male ego like speaking about ‘dominant masculinity’ this fashion,” one woman wrote on X, previously Twitter.
The comic was discussing the heavy nostalgia of his Sixties-set Pop-Tart comedy, “Unfrosted,” when he joked about all the time eager to be an actual man however falling quick. He then appeared to delve into extra critical territory.
“I actually thought, after I was in that period, once more, it was JFK, it was Muhammad Ali, it was Sean Connery, Howard Cosell ― you possibly can go all the best way down there,” Seinfeld advised “Honestly” host Bari Weiss in a podcast episode released Tuesday.
“That’s an actual man. I need to be like that sometime. Effectively, no, I by no means actually grew up. You don’t need to, as a comic, as a result of it’s a infantile pursuit. However I miss a dominant masculinity. Yeah, I get the poisonous, thanks, however nonetheless I like an actual man.”