Newsom’s War on Masculinity Comes Full Circle | The American Spectator

Gavin Newsom just discovered men exist. After years of treating masculinity like a social disease requiring immediate quarantine, California’s slick-haired governor suddenly wants to help the boys he’s spent his career neutering. His recent executive order targeting male suicide and isolation would be touching if it weren’t so laughably transparent.

The conversion happened fast. One day, Newsom’s celebrating biological males shattering girls’ records on high school tracks. The next, he’s wringing his manicured hands over young men “suffering in silence.” (RELATED: Newsom Can’t Memory-Hole What He Did to California)

What changed? Trump did. He peeled off their voters. Droves of young men — especially working-class and minority — have abandoned the Democrats, choosing a brash, unapologetic figure over a party that spent years branding their masculinity toxic, their drive dangerous, and their presence in classrooms, boardrooms, and relationships a threat to be managed. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom Wants To Be Donald Trump So Badly)

Newsom’s timing deserves applause for its shamelessness. With 2028 presidential ambitions burning hotter than California wildfires, he needs those male votes back. Enter the executive order, a masterpiece of political theater designed to con the disengaged while ticking every focus group box.

The statistics behind his sudden concern are genuinely horrifying. Men commit suicide at four times the rate of women. They’re drowning in depression, addiction, and purposelessness. College campuses look like dating apps — 60 percent female, 40 percent male, and dropping. Young men live in their parents’ basements, lost in video games and pornography, while their female peers launch careers and buy houses. (RELATED: This Man Is Not the Answer to the Masculinity Crisis)

This crisis didn’t emerge from nowhere. It’s the predictable result of decades of systematic masculine destruction — cultural, educational, political. And California has been leading the charge. Newsom’s state banned fatherhood from ads, stripped shop classes from schools, flooded classrooms with gender confusion, and pushed boys to apologize for being boys. California perfected the art of emasculation, then acts shocked when men collapse under the weight of their own engineered irrelevance. (RELATED: How the BBC Dehumanizes Men)

California schools treat normal boyish behavior like criminal pathology. Rough play becomes assault. Competition gets condemned. Risk-taking is reframed as recklessness. Zero-tolerance policies punish the very traits that once built masculine character. Boys learn the rules early: their instincts are dangerous, their nature defective, their energy a problem to be managed. (RELATED: Opt Out of Gender Propaganda)

Roughhousing becomes aggression. Assertiveness turns into misconduct. By middle school, the message is clear — sit still, stay quiet, or face discipline. The classroom has become hostile ground.

Teaching methods favor female modes of learning — obedience, order, open discussion. State curricula reward compliance over curiosity, consensus over conviction. Boys who thrive on movement and mastery now stumble through environments built for their opposite. Male teachers have nearly disappeared, leaving boys without strong models during critical years. And those who remain walk on eggshells, wary of accusation, paralyzed by policy. The result is a generation of boys disciplined by women, instructed by women, and steadily conditioned to distrust themselves.

Newsom’s persona embodies the gelded male archetype California now rewards. Every strand of hair is choreographed, every smile practiced, every word trimmed by handlers. He’s the domesticated man the state prefers — non-threatening, emotionally malleable, and surgically inoffensive. The kind who apologizes before he speaks. Real masculinity unsettles progressives. Newsom’s masculinity calms them.

His latest initiative makes the confusion plain. The governor wants to steer young men toward volunteerism and teaching — roles rooted in service, not strength. Instead of channeling drive, discipline, or the instinct to protect, he offers career paths that sidestep those qualities entirely. It’s a soft-gloved remedy for a hard-edged crisis, doomed to fail because it misreads male psychology entirely.

Boys don’t thrive in consensus circles. They sharpen through conflict, not a continuous cycle of compromises. They crave hierarchy over horizontal harmony, challenge over emotional check-ins. They need physical risk, earned respect, and male mentors who model resilience — not classrooms ruled by safetyism and female authority. Newsom’s plan offers the exact inverse of what works.

And beneath the schoolroom dysfunction lies something deeper: California’s sustained assault on the traditional family. State divorce laws reward dissolution. Custody courts routinely sideline fathers. Boys are stripped of male guidance just as testosterone kicks in and identity hardens. Single mothers, no matter how devoted, can’t model manhood. Fathers are irreplaceable, but California has made them expendable.

Young men don’t need Newsom’s therapeutic interventions. They need purpose, competition, and respect for their masculine nature. They need a culture that values their contributions instead of treating their existence as problematic.

Newsom’s masculinity makeover fools nobody who’s watched his career. The 57-year-old shows neither insight nor integrity, only political calculation disguised as genuine concern. He’s the same progressive governor who spent years dismantling masculine identity, now wearing concern like a campaign button. His sudden compassion expires the moment it conflicts with progressive orthodoxy. California’s young men deserve someone who understands that masculinity isn’t a stain to be removed but a force requiring proper direction. Gavin Newsom is not that man.

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