NYT Touts Kelce & Walz 'Jock Insurance'

We're reaching around (heh) to pick up this political news item with a local spin.

The main question . . .

IS TRAVIS KELCE THE NEW MODEL FOR MANHOOD IN KANSAS CITY & FOR CAMPAIGN 2024?!?

It seems like his potential political endorsement might be even more noteworthy than whatever Taylor Swift decides . . . Or decides for him.

Either way . . . 

Here's an apt passage suggested by BEST & BRIGHTEST TKC READERS who read the NYT for us so we don't have to . . .

"These men have little in common, and only one of them is running for vice president. But taken together, Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce and Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, exemplify a kind of healthy masculine confidence we seem to have all but forgotten after eight long years of Donald Trump (and five long weeks of JD Vance). These guys don’t seem self-conscious about wearing their emotions on their sleeves, or in showing devotion and appreciation to the women they often stand behind. And yet it doesn’t feel like they are posturing — either by virtue signaling or doling out sensitive-guy breadcrumbs in order to earn clout.

"What Mr. Walz and Mr. Kelce do share is an elusive quality of masculine identity that bears a clever name: Jock Insurance. It means, in a nutshell, that they possess the masculine bona fides — things like football, hunting, military service — that allow them to behave in ways that seem at odds with traditional masculinity, without being seen as weak."

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