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The Guardian - US
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Arwa Mahdawi

A Fox host’s ‘rules for being a man’: no leg-crossing, no public soup drinking

Jesse Watters, man wearing suit, speaks at desk with hand gestured
‘There is a direct line between the misogyny and rigid gender roles amplified on Fox News’. Photograph: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

The Fox News-approved guide to being a man

Tim Burchett, a Republican representative, would like you to know that he is not a straw man. No sir. Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, the Tennessee lawmaker explained that he is a red-blooded American male who does not “drink out of a straw” because “that’s what the women in my house do”. And no self-respecting man wants to be like the women in their house, do they? Yuck.

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