Kevin Sorbo provoked an uproar after claiming that Hollywood guys aren’t “manly” any longer.
The 65-year-old actor, best known for his role in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys in 1995, claimed in an op-ed for Fox News that an “anti-men” campaign had pervaded the American film business in the previous 20 years.
Sorbo utilized a passage from 2004’s The Incredibles to support his case in the post headed “Let’s Make Hollywood Manly Again,” writing: “Elastigirl says, ‘Leave the saving of the world to the men?” “I don’t think so,” he says, noting that this “underpins every major entry for cinema’s most famous metonym.”

“Bold, confident, self-assured females outnumber passive men who fade quietly into the background everywhere we look.” Into the cellar. “Into the past,” he continued, adding that dads have become the “butt of every woke Hollywood jab [as] bumbling, useless idiots who contribute nothing to their families or communities.”
Many moviegoers would say that Marvel and DC Universe superhero films starring highly macho guys have dominated the business for the past decade.
However, the Andromeda star disagrees, claiming that he wants to see more “men we’d want our sons to emulate and daughters to date” on our screens.

Sorbo said, “On the one hand, we love to normalize androgynous, Billy Porter-type men who sport skirts and poofy dresses.”
He also went after British GQ’s best-dressed actor, Timothée Chalamet, oddly suggesting that he wears costumes that “your grandfather” wouldn’t be caught in before making a transphobic remark about Dylan Mulvaney.
Other elements cited by the Xena: Warrior Princess actress as reasons why Hollywood males aren’t “manly anymore” include “alcohol, drugs, video games, p**n, and other entertainment.” He did not, however, provide any evidence to support any of this.

“In reality, America today needs warriors, protectors, and responsible and committed fathers,” the author said. “We need men who will raise their kids, defend their homes, provide for their families, and serve self-sacrificially—all of which is impossible if they are dissipated and addicted to pleasure.”
Sorbo went on to say that boys “need heroes” and that Hollywood should show that “through the medium of filmmaking in this generation.”
Many people raced to social media after reading his op-ed to attack the actor for his concerns about men in Hollywood.
“Those tough guy movie characters that swaggered, hit women, or reveled in gratuitous violence were an obnoxious aspirational macho persona,” a dissatisfied user commented.
“OK, so kind, caring, intelligent men frighten you?” said another irate user. I know a lot of men that have kinder attributes because they are man enough.”
“They can back their play and are just as masculine as the next guy; they’ve simply grown out of the toxic part of our society’s version of masculinity,” they said. “So, what y’all are really saying when you support absurd posts like this is that you aren’t able to grow into or appreciate true, non-toxic masculinity, period.”

In his op-ed, Sorbo concluded that Hollywood has to “reintroduce good men” who love and defend their wives and children and “fight for what’s right and speak up for the powerless.”
“Men who, above all, have overcome their own selfish desires and are free to put others first,” he stated.
Sorbo, I’m sure you can achieve all of that while wearing a stunning black gown on the red carpet.