Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said conservatives needed to 'call men back to responsibility,' in a new interview that .
'Spending your time on video games, spending your time watching porn movies online while doing nothing is not good for you, your family, or this country,' Hawley said.
The Missouri Republican also suggested the left should be blamed for men's undoing.
Hawley sat down with Axios' Mike Allen, who asked him about recent remarks he made at the National Conservatism Conference over Halloween weekend in Orlando.
There, he said 'that after years of being told ... that their manhood is the problem, more and more men are withdrawing into the enclave of idleness, and pornography, and video games.'
'We need the kind of men who make republics possible,' Hawley said.
Allen wanted to know why Hawley saw masculinity as his 'new big issue.'
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley (right) talked to Axios' Mike Allen (left) about masculinity for an episode of Axios on HBO that aired Sunday
'Well, what I think what the left is doing is attacking America,' Hawley replied. 'They're saying that America is systemically oppressive, and men are systemically responsible.'
Hawley was then asked to define a man.
'Well, a man is a father, a man is a husband, a man is somebody who takes responsibility,' he answered.
'As conservatives, we've got to call men back to responsibility,' the Republican senator continued.
He noted that more and more men aren't working - and thus are playing video games and watching pornography, while also not getting married.
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