'If You Can Keep It': What ‘Masculinism’ Means For America

1A · Jun 8, 2026 · 33m

Last week marked the anniversary of Congress passing the 19th Amendment.

In 1919, that Constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote — although it only applied in practice to white women for decades. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and Jim Crow-era state laws prevented Black women from voting.

Fast forward 107 years, and a growing conservative movement now wants to repeal the 19th Amendment and the other hard-won rights of women and people of color. It’s called “masculinism,” and its goal is to combat what its believers see as a “feminized” U.S. society.

In this edition of “If You Can…