Journalist Helen Lewis discusses how the online right's fascination with hypermasculinity is a product of modern comfort and boredom, termed 'cosplay' masculinity. This ideology is enabled by the safety afforded by contemporary life.

“This is an ideology that is born out of fat modernity itself,” the journalist Helen Lewis argues on “The Ezra Klein Show,” where she explains why the online right’s fascination with hypermasculinity is a bored delusion made possible by the safety of modern life.