The New York Times has a lengthy obituary.
I remember riding in an elevator in 1984 with a clean-cut collegian wearing an orange button on his jacket. In black letters on an orange background: FRITZ IS A WIMP. I think that moment must have been my first awareness of toxic masculinity at work in politics.
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Here, from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, is a transcript of a Reagan speech from October 1984, with the crowd chanting the words on the button.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Walter Mondale (1928–2021)
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Oh geez, I forgot about that whole part of that era, and never connected it in my head to the much later term "toxic masculinity."
It’s helpful to have that name for it now. It made me think of the insults of middle school.
Real men are not afraid of being kind.
Here’s a Twitter thread with one story of his character.
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