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Seeking a concise and creative title to describe the faux masculinity warriors on the right.
  • A few good ones (with attribution)

    and my tweaking in bold. Sorry if these have been suggested already, I haven't had time to read all comments.

    A Hard Man is Good to Find

    Sexual overtones in the search for a tough Republican leader

    -- Jim White

    A Hard Man is Good to Find

    How the Right exploits sexual insecurities in their search for a leader

    Macho Macho Man: The Politics of Masculinity

    and then have a photoshopped picture of the Village People with the faces of right-wing figures.

    -- victorycabal

    Macho Macho Man: The Politics of Mythical Masculinity(or "Of Myth and Masculinity")

    (like the imagery)

    The Right-Wing Package: Manufacturing the Warrior Myth

    The Right-Wing Package: Fake warriors and the liars who love them

    The Strong Leader’s Package: The Infinite Gap between Myth and Reality

    The Faux Package: Masculinity, Myth, and Reality in Right-Wing Discourse

    (both too good to change)

    -- Presumptuous Insect

    The Manliness Mystique: An Investigation into the Conservative Male's Sense of Inadequacy

    -- lknlkn

    The Masculine Mystique:Why Conservative men are afraid of women and gays

    Warriors and Weaklings: Pretense and Paranoia in the Right Wing--poli-psych

    Warriors and Weaklings: Pretense and Projection from the Right

    The New Militarism: Wannabe Warriors and the Media That Enable Them

    -- Propagandee

    The New Militarism: How Conservative men have subverted the ideals of manhood

    "Little Boy Soldiers"

    -- orbitboy

    Toy Soldiers: Conservative Men who love war and hate fighting them

    The Masculinity Cult: How the personal become political

    Susan of Texas

    The Cult Of Masculinity: How the sexual became the political

    Some of my own:

    Failing the Test: How Conservatives men DO NOT Live up to their own ideals of what it is to be a man.

    Forging a Myth: Real Men-and the Right-Wing

    The Killing Machine: How the Right-wing and their Media enablers bully men into making war.