Madison Cawthorn’s Cri De Coeur, ‘If You’re Raising Young Men, Raise Them To Be A Monster’

There are men and then there are manly men. There are cocky men, whose confidence is charming as long as they don’t take themselves too seriously, and then there are LDE “Little Dick Energy” men, who punch out trees and shoot big guns. These are the guys who not only want to convince you that they’re Real Men, they’re desperately trying to convince themselves. Madison Cawthorn is such a being. You know that he loves to troll the libs and say something outrageous to get into the headlines. But this is a little more. This is him putting his inferiority complex out there for one and all to see.

New video from Madison Cawthorn tonight: “Our culture is trying to completely demasculate all the young men. You can look at testosterone levels in young men today, and they are lower than throughout all of history .. If you are raising a young man, raise them to be a monster!” pic.twitter.com/ZhHSghQ5zt

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 18, 2021

Now, Cawthorn knows something about being a monster. He used to go on reckless joyrides with females in college and ask them about their previous sexual experiences, while they were a captive audience in his car and scared to death, wondering if they were going to get back to campus in one piece. This is his idea of masculinity.

Footnote: “Cawthorn often used his car as a way to entrap…women classmates, taking them on what he could call ‘fun drives.’ Two said he would drive recklessly & ask them about their…sexual experiences while they were locked in the moving vehicle.” https://t.co/mx06OqSEFb

— Christopher, Esq. (@ChrisAlbertoLaw) October 18, 2021

Buzzfeed News:

As Cawthorn’s own political career took off, his former classmates expressed shock and dismay in private Facebook groups and text messages seen by BuzzFeed News; they said he had been “chauvinistic” on campus just a few years before and discussed female students’ sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Some came forward during his campaign to share their experiences with Cawthorn on social media and in private. Last August, World magazine published the accounts of three women who said the young conservative sexually harassed and verbally assaulted them. One of these women was among those who spoke to BuzzFeed News for this story. Cawthorn has unequivocally denied the accusations, telling the Daily Caller the story was a “mix of half-truths, untruths and potentially fabricated allegations.”

Then, in October, more than 160 members of the Patrick Henry community signed an open letter detailing “gross misconduct towards our female peers, public misrepresentation of his past, disorderly conduct that was against the school’s student honor code, and self-admitted academic failings,” including that Cawthorn “established a reputation of predatory behavior.” After the letter was published, Cawthorn told ABC 13 that it was based on rumors, and his campaign wrote in a Facebook post that he had the endorsement of a “significant number of PHC alumni and former students who knew him well.” The post was signed by just six people. Two worked for the campaign and a third was one of their relatives. […]

While Cawthorn has painted women’s accounts of sexual misconduct and predatory behavior as politically motivated lies, this new investigation into his time at Patrick Henry College provides an in-depth examination of the allegations against the North Carolina representative and uncovers previously unreported details. More than 20 former Patrick Henry students told BuzzFeed News that Cawthorn harassed his women classmates. The students either said they experienced his sexually inappropriate behavior firsthand, comforted friends after a traumatizing incident, or were warned about his conduct by their dorm leaders. Although Cawthorn was only at the school for just over one semester, students said he quickly developed a reputation as someone who took advantage of and mistreated women.

But former classmates also remember Cawthorn as magnetic and ambitious, delivering almost-too-firm handshakes, buddying up with nearly everyone he met, and flirting with and befriending many women classmates. A former high school football player and avid athlete — his Instagram feed is peppered with videos in which he claimed he was training for the 2020 Paralympic Games, which wasn’t true — Cawthorn exuded a jock persona at school, classmates said. He soon formed a small posse of guys, which seven former students told BuzzFeed News was known around campus as the “the douche crew.”

And then there was the time they found out what a pathological liar he was.

School officials invited the first-year student to speak in chapel in January 2017, a rare honor usually reserved for seniors. During his address, of which BuzzFeed News obtained audio, Cawthorn told the entire student body, as well as some professors and staffers, a compelling and terrifying story about the day his life changed: a car crash on the way back from a spring break trip in 2014 that left him paralyzed and questioning God. In his telling in the chapel, Cawthorn said that his best friend, his “brother,” escaped and ran to safety, leaving him unconscious to die “in a fiery tomb” with flames licking his legs. The crash, he said, also ruined his plans of attending the Naval Academy. Heading to Annapolis to serve the country was an integral part of his story and eventually became a prominent line in multiple interviews, campaign speeches, and ads.

But the students didn’t find out he was misleading them about his life-changing moment until last year, when Asheville Watchdog published the 2017 deposition in which Cawthorn said he had been rejected from the academy before he was injured and that his best friend had actually pulled him out of the car and saved his life.

Both Petree and Coulter [two women at the school whom Cawthorn had intimidated] said that after their private encounters with Cawthorn, it was tough to sit in the chapel in 2017 and listen to him talk about his relationship with the Lord and get emotional about his purpose as a Christian.

“Having to sit and listen to this man on a stage speak to us about his closeness with God or the events in his life, and knowing our experience with him, was really disappointing,” Petree said.

And here is Cawthorn talking about women. This is how manly men do it, we presume.

According to Petree and two other people who were present, Cawthorn began asking people at the table about how many people they had kissed or had physical relationships with, asking specifically about their previous partners’ races. After an awkward exchange about Petree not wanting to be with men shorter than her, Petree and the other people present said Cawthorn became aggressive.

“And all of a sudden, he snaps at me in a tone and with a degree of anger that no man has ever spoken to me since or before then. He snaps at me that I was just a ‘little blonde slutty American girl’ and yells this to me across the table, at a table of our peers — our Christian, conservative peers — all over a comment in response to an inappropriate, just astounding conversation that he’s initiated,” Petree said.

She walked out of the dining hall with her friend. Diego Lastra, Giovanna’s younger brother who had also been present, followed. Diego had hung out with Cawthorn and his friends for about a semester when they were all first-year students and remembers checking on Petree after the “slutty” comment to see if she was OK. Diego said repeated instances of that type of behavior by Cawthorn led him to pull away from the group.

When they had hung out, Diego said, it felt like the frat that his college didn’t have. He said the guys would make vulgar jokes. One day at the start of the spring semester, Diego, then 18, said Cawthorn was driving him and some of their friends back to his house to a party when Cawthorn asked, “Which race of girls gives the best blowjobs?” Cawthorn then interrupted him, Diego said, answering his own question: “White girls are the worst, Black girls are second, Asian girls are the best.” Another PHC student who was in the car confirmed the story.

Cawthorn’s classmates were reportedly horrified to see his rise in politics. We know exactly how they feel.

So remember, if you’re raising sons, grandsons, stepsons, what have you, make sure that they’re angry, hostile, mistreat women and lie a great deal — in short, that they’re “monsters.” That’s the Cawthorn recipe for making de-masculinized men re-masculinized. Or something.