It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. You probably know by now about Donald Trump

campaigning hard on notions of traditional masculinity, right, to spread the gender gap wide with

women so skeptical of him and hope to attract even more men than he is losing women.

Or as ABC News put it recently, the Republican nominee is amping up his hypermasculent tone

and support of traditional gender roles,

a reflection of the surgical campaign within a campaign for the votes of men.

How unsettled is it? Well, ABC quotes the well-known right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk,

saying, quote, if you are a man in this country and you don't vote for Donald Trump,

you're not a man.

And some of you may have heard Trump's instantly infamous ode to the golfer Arnold Palmer over the weekend when he was campaigning in Pennsylvania.

Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that in all due respect to women and I love women. But this guy, this guy,

this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. Strong and tough. Trump in

Pennsylvania and what makes a man a man. And I spared you, some of you know,

the end of that clip where he actually praised Palmer as a real man for the size of his anatomy.

This is what it's come to. And it's no surprise to you by now, I'm sure, on his willingness to be

both gross and retrograde, which is what really made the news about

that clip. But here's what might surprise you. That kind of appeal isn't just aimed at older

men who resent the fact that, you know, the old world patriarchy style is falling out of favor

and fear it's falling out of power. It's also aimed at young men, Gen Z men.

There's apparently a really big youth gender gap being seen in this election.

An article on this in the New York Times on Friday said, quote,

if this enormous gender gap among young voters holds up,

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