Sean Penn Criticizes ‘Feminized’ Men Who ‘Surrender Their Jeans And Put On A Skirt’

Oscar winning-actor Sean Penn has claimed “cowardly genes” are leading men to “surrender their jeans and put on a skirt.” 

Penn generated headlines earlier this month for some of his comments. “I am in the club that believes that men in American culture have become wildly feminized,” he said in an interview. “I don’t think that being brute of having insensitivity or disrespect is anything to do with masculinity or ever did. But I don’t think that [in order] to be fair to women, we should become them.”

“I think that men have, in my view, have become quite feminized,” he told The Independent. “I have these very strong women in my life who do not take masculinity as a sign of oppression toward them. There are a lot of, I think, cowardly genes that lead to people surrendering their jeans and putting on a skirt.” 

His daughter, Dylan Penn, was also a part of the interview to promote their film Flag Day. The publication noted that Penn’s comment left Dyan “quiet” and “stared” into space. 

Flag Day was directed by Penn that is based on the autobiographical Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life written by Jennifer Vogel. The film shows the unique bond between a daughter and a twisted father, John Vogel, who spent years in prison for a bank robbery, a schemer and dreamer, and became one of the most notorious counterfeiters in U.S. history, faking over $20 million.

When the interviewer asked how much their father and daughter relationship compares to the Vogels, Penn joked, “I think in our relationship with each other, I’m far more handsome. Of course, there are parallels. We would run into things that came close to the bone here and there… that was easy for us both to look each other in the eye and go, ‘I remember we’ve been there and so on.”