"Real men..." Really? It's 2025, shouldn't we be past such misogynist expressions?

It's a silly old meme from the days before Mr Dawkins invented the word meme.

We were sadly not past expressions like that in say the 70s or 80s but by the 90s, that phrase was definitely considered ironic (in the modern sense). Back then irony was merely one metallic mouth feel, along with steely, coppery and brassic.