Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday raised hackles when he complained to the Conservative Political Action Conference that men are supposedly no longer allowed to drink beer and tell jokes.
"Our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge," Vance said, without citing any evidence to support such a claim. "My message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends."
Many users on the social media website BlueSky were quick to mock Vance, with some questioning the vice president's own masculine bonafides.
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"Has there ever been a more estrogen-filled dough boy crying about masculinity than this dummy?" asked BlueSky user John Reidy. "He's the guy who gets swatted with a hat in an old sitcom, not the arbiter of how to be a man."
"The only remotely masculine thing about Vance is the astroturf on his face," joked Matt Szafranski.
"There's nothing quite so old school masculine as the guy who looks like one of the reclining space travelers in Wall-E who has never cleared up whether he wears smoky eyeliner wherever he goes," observed Dan O'Sullivan.
Other BlueSky users questioned the reality of Vance's claim that men are shamed for drinking beer and making jokes.
"All this guy does is cry in public about things he made up in his head," wrote the pseudonymous account Internet Hippo.
"It’s so funny how the right’s concept of masculinity has shifted from Hollywood cowboy bulls--t to constantly whining about imagined grievances in the Trump era," wrote Shayne Mathis.
"Was in a bar the other day, enjoying a beer with my friend, when the Woke Police arrested us," joked University of Michigan professor Don Moynihan.