Tucker Carlson Tonight: Columnist: Not all men are guilty of 'toxic masculinity,' as liberals would like us to believe in sex misconduct cases. Libs have enabled toxic masculinity. The world needs more masculine gentlemen.



From Monday's broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight:





TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: Ned Ryun was a former speechwriter at the White House. He recently wrote a piece called In Defense of Masculinity for the Journal of American Greatness and he joins us tonight. Ed, thanks for coming on.



NED RYUN, FOUNDER AND CEO, AMERICAN MAJORITY: Thanks, Tucker. Glad to be here.



CARLSON: So, how does your piece bear on the national conversation we are having about sexual harassment?



RYUN: No. I think one of the things, one of the points I made in that piece, Tucker, just really addressed the fact that we're dealing with some of this toxic masculinity that Hollywood and the media created. You go back and look at the years and years of conditioning of objectifying women, of turning them into, you know, these objects in print and film and normalizing abhorrent behavior.



And now people are reacting on the left and the media in Hollywood, you know, they are acting self-righteous and horrified at the behavior that is the end result of the conditioning that they received for years. And Tucker, one follows the other. If people have been conditioned for years to act in a certain way, they're going to behave a certain way. And so when you see them attacking this toxic masculinity, I want to make the argument, this is a culture that the left created.



Some of us, and this is why I wrote that piece have rejected that culture. We actually believe in self-discipline. We actually believe in virtue. The other great irony in all of this Tucker, the left not only created toxic masculinity, they have enabled it. You look at the Harvey Weinsteins and the Bill Clintons and the John Conyers and the Al Frankens. And then they want to as your guest just tried to make the argument they want to pin that terrible behavior of some men on all men and in fact say that all men are guilty of toxic masculinity when, in fact, we are not and we are not even capable of abusing those around us.



And so, I think this is a conversation that we have to have about what we're really discussing and who actually created the toxic masculinity. It didn't come from the right. It was something that was created by the left.



And now we are seeing the end results of it.



CARLSON: So, it seems like about 10 years ago but it was just several months ago when the vice president said, I think to a reporter that he does not go out to dinner with women alone.



RYUN: That's right.



CARLSON: And he was accused of being some kind of snake handling fundamentalist freak and jumped on by feminists. I wonder if they would reassess that now in light of everything we have seen in the last six weeks?



RYUN: No. And I think one of the funny things that we have seen really in the last couple of weeks. I wouldn't say funny, perhaps ironic is that these liberal elites who smeared at us, who actually believe in a culture of practice faith and respect for women and respect for the institution of marriage, well it turns out that those are sneering at us were actually in fact this patriarchal misogynistic perverts and predators.



And so, there are some of us -- many of us that actually believe in this world that we're in that, again, what sets us apart is self-discipline and respect and virtue and a certain behavior. It's the small decisions that make the man. And, again, we refuse to be pinned with this toxic masculinity because many of us have lived our lives in a very different way. And, in fact, where it's coming from is the behavior of the left and their conditioning of the culture that they have created.



CARLSON: Well, yes. Because I have to say with one exception, the allegations against Roy Moore would be the exception. But in almost all these other cases these are not evangelicals who are being accused. These are self-described feminists.



RYUN: That is right. That's right. No, and so I think the other thing, too, that needs to be discussed, Tucker is, this. You know, we are seeing the end results of decades and decades of conditioning in this sexual harassment this period of what we are seeing right now. I think the other thing that concerns me a little bit as your former guest was trying to get, to I think. I am concerned about the social experimentation that is taking place and trying to remove the manliness out of our boys.



And you know, when you see some of these things that are taking place in our education system, it's of deep concern to me. Listen, I'm all for women, for all the breakthrough they have made for girl power. All of those great things. I think the pendulum has swung too far the other way.

I think the boys that are being left behind.



CARLSON: Being for women does not mean being against men, of course.



RYUN: We'll see, I think that's where the left has gone wrong.



CARLSON: No, I couldn't agree more.



RYUN: But in response to the toxic masculinity they have created, they wanted to keep our voices suspended in this Peter Pan state and refuse to let them be men. In fact, they don't even want us boys to be boys. They want us to be girls. So, I think it is something we have to push back right now and not let it continue down this path.





