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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — War Secretary Pete Hegseth is a pure product of Fox News, a place he and I both once worked as co-hosts, and where performative masculinity reigns. And that’s exactly what the Pentagon’s “narco-boat” strikes are about.

Picture a sprawling frat house where men strutted around like insecure roosters, and women like me were expected to perch prettily, cross and uncross our legs on cue, and chuckle as though every recycled locker-room quip were Shakespearean genius. Any hope that some woman in the room would pipe up about basic respect was promptly smothered by the eager chorus of those who had mastered flattering the old boys who ran the circus. The guys weren’t paragons of manhood so much as they were eternally audi

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