Kevin Sorbo Criticizes Hollywood For Not Being ‘Masculine’ Enough, Slams Timothee Chalamet For Androgynous Clothing

Former Hercules star Kevin Sorbo called Hollywood men “bumbling, useless idiots” with a poor understanding of masculinity. 

In an essay written for Fox News, Sorbo takes aim at actors Timothee Chalamet and Billy Porter, saying they are contributing to a crisis in masculinity. 

“Society today seriously misunderstands masculinity… On the one hand, we love to normalize androgynous, Billy Porter-type men who sport skirts and poofy dresses… GQ‘s 2019 best-dressed man, Timothée Chalamet, for example, often wears clothes that your grandfather wouldn’t have been caught dead dressed like Chalamet,” Sorbo stated.

He also lambasted male tropes, particularly criticizing sitcoms.

“To me, it goes back to even sitcoms. You look at sitcoms over the last 30 years, the guy, the husband’s always kind of fat and dumpy, the mom’s kind of hot. And then they got the teenage kids, and all they do is belittle a father. It’s this whole attack on fathers – a whole attack on a man being a man.”

Sorbo also attacked feminism, stating that it had a role in what he perceives as a crisis. Believing that men have “given into their base desires” via the consumption of alcohol, drugs and pornography.

“It doesn’t really matter what end of the masculinity spectrum you fall on; if you’re a victim to your own base desires, the feminist culture has won,” he said. “You’re exactly the kind of wussy man they (think they) want you to be.”

Sorbo is best known for his television roles as Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda. He has been outspoken on his conservative and Christian beliefs, which he believes led to his blacklisting from Hollywood.

Sorbo has written a book, The Test of Lionhood, a children’s tale that details the journey of a lion cub looking to find a cure for a deadly infection of his sister. He hopes the book will help combat “the killing of chivalry and manhood.”

In 2016, he teamed up with Fox News host Sean Hannity to create religious-themed movies.