Protein is sexist, says legacy media
The mainstream media has launched a war on protein, saying the nutrient is sexist and blaming President Trump.
Vanity Fair: Protein is a ‘manosphere’ helmed by Donald Trump
On May 1st, Vanity Fair published an article titled: “Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Protein? Blame MAGA.”
“It’s not only men who care about protein, but a mosey through recent history suggests a strong correlation between the rise of the likes of the men’s rights movement and our national lust for protein—which is how we got to the quagmire of contradiction wherein a ‘manosphere’ helmed by Donald Trump (he of the diet dubbed by his own health secretary, the admittedly often incorrect Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be “really, like, bad”) has such a vocal contingent of intense protein-maxing health’ obsessives,” wrote Vanity Fair Senior Editor Keziah Weir.
Weir complained that the “obsession with protein affords a masculine-coded cover on the feminine-coded world of body image and dieting—and a subject over which men can bond as bros.”
She then attempted for a second time to draw a correlation between protein, sexism, and President Trump:
Was it correlation, coincidence, or some lean-meat canary in the proverbial coal mine that it was into this proteinous landscape that Donald Trump—burger loving, locker room talking, and all—announced his bid for the presidency?
And then a third time:
And now, amid a shrinking economy, following strides and setbacks for women’s rights via #MeToo and its backlash (including the overturning of Roe v. Wade), as well as marriage equality, visibility, and media representation for queer and trans people with a similar subsequent “anti-woke” recoil—we have a second Trump term, MAHA, and what menswear commentator Derek Guy calls the “slim-fit revolution” of the manfluencer sphere.
NPR: Protein is ‘the nutrient for men’
NPR, the radical Left outlet recently defunded by President Trump, has similarly tried to paint protein as sexist.
“A big reason why protein has never really gotten a bad rap among modern dieters is because it's a masculine macronutrient,” NPR host Brittany Luse said in January. “It's the nutrient for men. People of all genders need protein. It's just that protein, because of its relationship to muscle growth, has been masculinized. And thus, certain high-protein foods like meat also become masculinized.”
‘The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory’
This narrative is not new. In 1990, a book called “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory” was published. It claimed to explore “a relationship between patriarchal values and meat eating by interweaving the insights of feminism, vegetarianism, animal defense, and literary theory.” The New York Times praised it as “a bible of the vegan community,” while Library Journal called it "an important and provocative work.”
