Men — can they do anything right?

The latest PC outrage is that terrible husbands, especially those in the public eye, are praising their wives. Yes, that’s right, these awful men are saying nice things about their better halves, and they’re being annoyingly effusive about it. We can’t let them get away with it!

There’s even a new name for them: “wife guys.”

The term has been circulating on woke Web sites for some time, but lately it has crossed over into the mainstream.

In The New York Times last month, Amanda Hess offered this account of the latest enemy of woke­­ness: “The wife guy defines himself through a kind of overreaction to being married. His wife hurt herself, and he filmed it. He is sexually attracted to his wife, and he talks about it as if he were some kind of hero.

“The wife guy is a mutation of the ‘Instagram husband,’ the man who exists to take flattering photos of his wife, except that the wife guy is no longer content behind the scenes. He is crafting a whole persona around being that guy. He married a woman, and now that is his personality.”

The term was once relegated to men who “used” their wives to gain stature for themselves, in particular on social media. But now it’s any guy who admits to being into his wife.

It isn’t just traditional-conservative men who dare praise their wives and thereby raise liberal ire. Several of the Democratic presidential candidates answered “my wife” when asked by The New York Times to name their personal hero. John Delaney, Seth Moulton, Jay Inslee, Beto O’Rourke and Steve Bullock gave that answer to the Times and this, for some reason, was cause for criticism.

On The Cut site, Madeleine ­Aggeler rips into these candidates as “the type of man who calls his wife his hero as a way of acknowledging the fact that he has forced her to shoulder the responsibilities of their family life alone while he pursues his political dreams, in ­exchange for which she will face intrusive and overwhelming public scrutiny. (My hero!)”

That we have no idea what’s ­going on in each of these marriages is irrelevant. Delaney met his wife in law school, and she went on to found her own “international, satellite-based, Internet-services com­pany.” Perhaps she’s his hero ­because she’s super-smart and ­accomplished.

It used to be considered anti-feminist to assume women are only capable of raising families. What happened?

Aggeler then proceeds to rate the “wife guy” quotient of each American president. Somehow President Bill Clinton is a “wife guy,” whereas President Barack Obama isn’t. James Madison, “wife guy.” Millard Fillmore, not.

Confused? You aren’t alone.

We women can read these ­attacks on men and laugh. But for men, it’s just a continuing pummeling of them that comes no matter what they do.

A 2016 University of Melbourne study found that women on Facebook used the word “husband” a lot, while men used “wife” far less frequently. Chris Matyszczyk at CNET called this “troubling.”

If they don’t talk about their wives, they’re bad. If they do talk about their wives, they’re also bad.

Behind the attack on “wife guys,” I suspect, lurks a hostility to wifehood and marriage in general. Jia Tolentino made that hostility explicit in The New Yorker last month: “The very word is freighted with a history that I would prefer not to join, one in which women have been asked to conceive of their systemic subservience to men as a pleasure and a calling — to make a badge of honor out of a badge of woe.”

There’s no winning for men. We don’t take these kinds of shots at women and the way they conduct themselves in their relationships, but it’s standard and acceptable to take them at men.

It’s OK, “wife guys”: Praise your wives, call them your “heroes,” talk about how great they are. Don’t let the think-piece harridans and mocking labels stop you.

Most importantly, make sure your wife enjoys your wife-guyness. That’s really what it’s all about.

Twitter: @Karol