‘You Are Wrong To Like T*ts’: Chris Cuomo Calls Me Too ‘A Form of Aggression’

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo ranted against the Me Too movement on his podcast at length, referring to it as “a form of aggression.”

On The Chris Cuomo Project on Thursday, Cuomo gave his thoughts on what he believed caused the radicalization of Shane Tamura, the man who killed four people and himself in a mass shooting in Manhattan on Monday. Cuomo blamed social media and polarization, calling it “a two-part problem.”

“You know, I was just having a conversation with somebody about the algorithms and what they pick up and that provocative things, aggressive things, violent things get more clicks. Let’s unpack that,” said Cuomo. “It’s a two-part problem. First part of the problem is you’ve decided with your algorithms to reward that. If you were to design the algorithm such that only virtuous things get reach, you don’t think there’d be more virtuous things? I do. Why? Because of the susceptibility of repetition and of cultural conditioning.”

He continued:

You are who you’re around most often. By extension, you are what you are around most often. Let me tell you something. And as somebody who has spent decades talking to bigots, they rarely spend a lot of time around diversity, okay? People who fear any type of people, they usually have very little exposure to them, okay? So they are making a choice that’s easy– that the natural human condition, aggression, violence, opposition – that they’re just playing to that they don’t have to. They could make other things resonate as much. They choose not to. They choose not to. It’s a two-part problem. The second part is violence comes easy to us in America. We are a culture that is consumed with aggression.

Cuomo pinpointed what he saw as one of the forms of American aggression: the Me Too Movement.

“Now, sometimes there’s reaction formation to it, right? Like, look, I see Me Too as a form of aggression. I see cancel culture as a form of aggression. Yeah, sure you’re targeting alpha males,” he said.

After describing a meme he saw, wherein “third base” is equated to hearing a woman’s “hopes and dreams,” Cuomo lashed out at what he calls the “oppositional, conflictual, hostile” movement.

“And I was like, ‘So, it’s wrong to find the opposite sex sexually attractive, that you have to find them attractive on the basis of what their deepest thoughts and philosophies are?’ That there’s no more physical attraction, there’s no more animal attraction, there’s no more sexual attraction, it’s got to be all intellectual?” said Cuomo. “What the fuck are we doing? And you wonder why the left loses and that’s the kind of shit that you want to put out? ‘Oh, well, the opposite is misogyny.’ No, it isn’t. No, it isn’t.”

You can find a female physically attractive and intelligent and attractive on the basis of what’s in their head and their heart. Someone can have a nice body and a nice brain. You just want both. You don’t have to make one the commodity over the other. But that’s what we keep doing. Oppositional, conflictual, hostile. That’s what we do.

“You are wrong to like tits. You are bad. Bad man liking tits, looking at an ass. You are bad and objectifying. You must look at her sense of math. You must look at her choices of what types of vegetables she prefers and her ambitions and what she wants.” Oh, because that’s what you motherfuckers do when you’re analyzing men, right? It’s not like there’s a sole criterion for men, right? “What does he do? What does he do?” That’s what you ask most often about men. “Oh, I met this great guy.” ‘Really? What does he do?’ Right. “What does he do? Oh, what are his dreams?” That’s not what you say. “Oh, what makes him most comfortable?” No, that’s not what you say. You say, “what does he do?” Why? ‘Cause Chris Rock is right.

“Because only women and dogs and kids are loved unconditionally. Men are only loved when they provide something. It’s true. And it’s extreme. And we’ve made it extreme like everything else. And that’s why our politics has become reduced to who you can destroy and how,” he concluded.

Cuomo was fired from CNN in 2021 due to “his involvement with his brother’s [Andrew Cuomo’s] defense” against multiple sexual harassment allegations, which eventually lead to the elder Cuomo’s resignation from office.