Due to media influence, effeminacy is the new "cool". A "caring", "compassionate", "empathetic" man is the one that is promoted by the media as the ideal man. It is all part of legitimizing ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity, by making even straight guys more like homos.
It's not something that I see outside of college campuses, here in the Midwest, but it definitely exists. Be prepared to see more of it, as the West slides further into apostasy. It was a fairly well-known phenomena in the late Roman empire as well. "Nothing new is under the sun."
Which is fairly ironic because the late Empire was
more Christian.
As for the OP, I don't know where she is talking about except for some Bourgeoisie sections of some of the major urban areas. I am from a Northern urban area and masculinity or macho-ness was almost on constant display if you wanted to win a females affection, but then again, I grew up in a poor to lower working class neighborhood.
For all this talk about the Southern Alpha male, my expierence is that Northerners are generally tougher than our Southern counterparts in many ways.
And we all know who got their butts kicked during the cινιℓ ωαr, probably not because we were "tougher"but my belief is that the men from the North were more ruthless than the Southern "Gentleman".
But I will admit, I have seen some of these attributes that she's talking about from some of the younger males these days, again, in certain areas.