'I like a real man,' the Unfrosted star said in an interview that's getting some flak.
said on a podcast this week that he likes “a real man” and misses “dominant masculinity,” angering a considerable part of the online population. The comedian was discussing the heavy nostalgia of his 1960s-set Pop-Tart comedy, “Unfrosted,” when he joked about always wanting to be a real man but falling short. He then appeared to delve into more serious territory.
“I really thought, when I was in that era, again, it was JFK, it was Muhammad Ali, it was Sean Connery, Howard Cosell ― you can go all the way down there,” Seinfeld told “That’s a real man. I want to be like that someday. Well, no, I never really grew up. You don’t want to, as a comedian, because it’s a childish pursuit. But I miss a dominant masculinity. Yeah, I get the toxic, thank you, but still I like a real man.”on a nostalgia for the 1960s found throughout his new movie, “Unfrosted,” and what’s been lost in our culture today.
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