A gay makeup artist has the internet in hysterics after pointing out that a far-right troll used an image of him for a meme trying to celebrate conventional masculinity.
“Some of you will remember the idiotic far right stole an image of me to make a meme for them,” Anthony Gordon recently wrote on Threads. “What they don’t know is I’m a far left gay liberal man lol. Bozos!”
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The meme depicts a photo of Gordon, who has large muscles and appears to be a fitness guru based on his social media. The overlaying text declares, “Remember Boys, They keep calling us ‘Far-Right’ When in reality we have been ‘Right-So-Far.’”
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Gordon is not only gay, but he has in the past talked to LGBTQ Nation about being in a gay throuple and his Instagram bio describes him as “happily polyamorous.”
“I’m so lucky to have two incredible men in my life,” Gordon told LGBTQ Nation last year, “and I’m proud that we realized we didn’t have to force ourselves into heterosexist norms. I feel it’s important that we share our story as a throuple. I think we’ll be seeing a lot more polys in the near future, as baby boomers get older and realize we all need to take care of each other.”
Between his artistic side and his love for fitness, Gordon is exactly the type of man conservatives decry, one who can’t be siloed by the traditionally masculine or feminine. His personal social media accounts depict him showing off his “masculine” body and love of fitness. Meanwhile, his professional page displays his work on the faces of celebrities like Leighton Meester and Paris Jackson.
Gordon’s followers found the troll’s mistake wildly entertaining, with many pointing out that the far-right often co-opts pieces of queer culture without realizing it, such as the president’s obession with “YMCA,” a song pivotal to queer culture.
“At least they revealed they find you the picture of masculinity!” one user responded on Gordon’s post.
Another joked that “the far-right is a gaggle of closeted, thirsty, bear hunters.”
A third user boiled it down to simply calling them “mind numbingly stupid” while another said, “The irony is delicious.”
The far-right has long been obsessed with perpetuating stereotypical forms of masculinity to the point of absurdity. While campaigning, the president and vice president positioned themselves as “strongman” candidates who will “protect” women by upholding conservative gender roles. The entire right, it seems, has exploded with denigrations of so-called “beta” males and praise for traditional versions of “alpha males.”
Fox host Jesse Watters is a consistent perpetrator of this messaging, having once railed against former President Joe Biden for eating ice cream in public because it is not manly. Another time, he ranted about Biden drinking with a straw in public.
“Joe Biden used a straw,” Watters said at the time. “I recommend that all men refrain from using straws. It’s unbecoming, the way a man’s lips purse, the size of the straws is too dainty, the way your fingers clasp on it, no, come on.”
In April, a group of Fox News contributors defended the president’s tariffs by saying they will force American citizens out of white-collar jobs in research and engineering and into blue-collar factory and agricultural jobs, thereby making American men more masculine since being a factory worker is more masculine than being a scientist.
Last year, anti-LGBTQ+ radio host and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk called Barack Obama a “low testosterone soy boy” after the former president appeared in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to support Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Kirk said Obama’s speech was “the most femboy, effeminate, low testosterone, soy boy approach on how to talk to men.”
“You talk to men like you do in a football locker room, direct. You challenge them. You tell them what they ought to do,” Kirk continued. “You talk about duty. You talk about honor. You talk about the pursuit of greatness. He talks to them as if they are in a group therapy session with a bunch of middle-aged drug-addicted women.”
Kirk also claimed “no real man” should vote for Harris because “she hates you, her agenda will belittle you, will disempower you.” He also added that Obama is “not exactly a great example of an American strong man.”
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