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President Donald Trump celebrating his 80th birthday with UFC fights on the White House lawn was classless enough. Then Josh Hokit was given a microphone. After the UFC fighter won his cage match at Trump\u2019s flamboyant celebration Sunday night, Hokit, who spoke mostly in disturbingly trite rhymes after his win, managed to further\u00a0degrade the event. At the conclusion of\u00a0his post-fight interview with announcer, podcaster and manosphere extraordinaire Joe Rogan, the athlete declared,\u201cMichelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Many in the crowd of thousands of UFC fans ate\u00a0it up, and expecting anything less would require an exceptional level of delusion. Misogynoir and transphobia have\u00a0been lobbed against Obama at least since 2008, when America elected her husband, Barack Obama, president.<\/p>\n

Misogynoir was coined by academic Moya Bailey in 2008 to describe the intertwining of racism and misogyny that targets Black women. As pervasive as it is, it took 15 years\u00a0for Merriam-Webster to add the word to its dictionary. Even in writing\u00a0this piece, each time I\u2019ve typed the term, spell-check suggests I have made a typo.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s tempting to categorize Hokit\u2019s remark as random, it was fully on brand for the athlete. ESPN reported, \u201cIn his post-fight interview at UFC 324 in January, Hokit called WNBA star Brittney Griner \u2018a man.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

He\u2019s the poster child for misogynoir.<\/p>\n

But his statement was also characteristic of the machismo that drove the event itself. Trump\u2019s entire political persona is crafted in the mold of a strongman, an archetype that couldn\u2019t exist without toxic masculinity. And when he was elected to the presidency a second time, Trump brought back to the forefront an erroneous vision of manhood. Hokit, and a lamentable number of other public figures, have since been empowered to espouse misogyny and preach the shallow gospel of toxic masculinity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But showmanship, repressed emotionality and a desperate adherence to benighted notions of manhood alone don\u2019t suffice. Toxic masculinity also requires an allegiance to the desirability politics that are often informed by white supremacy. And Hokit gave it a shoutout Sunday night.<\/p>\n

If toxic masculinity is a declaration of what we are expected to perceive as a quintessential depiction of manhood, then completing that picture requires a similar declaration about what we are expected to perceive as a quintessential depiction of womanhood. As has historically been the case, the beauty of Black women, as a whole, doesn\u2019t align with mainstream ideals of attractiveness.\u00a0So a Trump supporter\u2019s recycling of a racist trope about the first Black first lady being a man was a natural offshoot of Sunday\u2019s glorification of problematic masculinity.<\/p>\n

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Obama addressed misogynoir-laden and transphobic insults, among others, that she has faced over the years in her 2018 book \u201cBecoming.\u201d She writes, \u201cI\u2019ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel. I\u2019ve heard about the swampy parts of the internet that question everything about me, right down to whether I\u2019m a woman or a man. A sitting U.S. congressman has made fun of my butt. I\u2019ve been hurt. I\u2019ve been furious. But mostly, I\u2019ve tried to laugh this stuff off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hokit thumping his chest after a violent brawl per the request of a strongman-in-chief, then deriding\u00a0a high-profile Black female figure as masculine and thus, unappealing, was a true full-circle moment for the manosphere.\u00a0Notice that Hokit didn\u2019t do a full stop after he insulted\u00a0Obama. He asked, \u201cAm I right, America?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least that part made actual sense \u2014 Hokit\u2019s instinct to seek validation is yet another manifestation of toxic masculinity. His question offered a boisterous representation of the need for male approval that exists in the manosphere and the willingness of problematic men to give one another an outsized influence on their behavior. It wasn\u2019t enough for Hokit to disparage a prominent Black woman. He wanted someone to say, \u201cWell done.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for his question, the answer is \u201cno.\u201d Hokit was the farthest from \u201cright\u201d as one gets.\u00a0But the derision of Obama surely scored him brownie points in the manosphere.\u00a0What better way to secure a nod of respect from the community than to denigrate, arguably, the most high-profile Black woman in the United States while at an event teeming with hypermasculinity?\u00a0<\/p>\n

But neither Obama nor any other woman, Black or otherwise, should have to bear the burden of men insulting them in a desperate quest to secure approbation from other men.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hokit appears to be developing a habit of ascribing masculinity to Black women. He would be better served by questioning why his idea of manhood includes belittling women for applause.<\/p>\n

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