Meghan McCain: 'No Woman Could Get Away With' Carlson Testicle Tanning Clip

Meghan McCain has weighed in on Tucker Carlson's much talked about segment on "testicle tanning," insisting that "no woman could get away with" putting out such content for serious consumption.

Last weekend, a Tucker Carlson Originals: The End of Men segment showed Carlson's guest, Andrew McGovern—a fitness professional based in Ohio—speaking about how men should go about reversing the effects of falling testosterone. Tanning their testicles was one of the suggestions McGovern made.

Carlson's The End of Men documentary faced mockery on social media when a trailer was unveiled, with many Twitter users stating that the imagery was homoerotic.

The teaser featured several shots of shirtless, muscly men. They were shown wrestling, chopping wood, firing guns and at one point, a naked man was captured standing with his arms outstretched while his genitals underwent infrared tanning at an outlet that some called a Tesla charging station.

Sharing her own take on the video, McCain told Newsweek: "My friends sent me that video from the special, or whatever. And I was like, 'Is this meant to be like intensely homoerotic?' It is! I know it when I see it, and I just think it's really weird."

Picturing the reaction if she had put out such content, the former The View panelist went on: "Imagine if I went on TV and I was like, 'I'm really worried about estrogen and women and I'm going to I need you to go outside... and put sunlight on your vagina.'

"I would be taken off air and probably be asked to be put in some kind of mental institution or something. And I just think there's a lot of sexism in this [idea] like, 'Oh, Tucker Carlson can do a special on testicles and testosterone and masculinity and it's hilarious.' No woman could ever get away with it."

McCain, who spoke with Newsweek while promoting the hardcopy release of her book, Bad Republican, also questioned why screen time was given to such a subject, given the events currently dominating the news cycle.

"I wake up every morning like doom scrolling Twitter worried that we're entering World War Three or Russia has like nuked Ukraine," she said. "There's a lot more things that I find interesting, compelling, petrifying, more worthy of a news special than that...

"I even asked my husband. I was like, 'This is not something that's like done, right? Because I've never heard of us before.'"

Kid Rock, who made an appearance on Fox News host Carlson's show shortly after the testicle tanning segment aired, appeared baffled by the topic.

Rock, born Robert James Ritchie, said: "Dude, stop! Testicle tanning? Come on. I mean, I haven't heard anything that good in a long time."

"Open your mind, Bobby," said Carlson as he laughed along with his guest.

"I'm starting a punk rock band and it's called Testicle Tanning, that's the end of it."

"I think you'll be massively successful," joked Carlson, before attempting to get the conversation back on track. "But don't you think at this point when so many of the therapies—the paths they've told us to take—have turned out to be dead ends that have really hurt people, why wouldn't open-minded people seek new solutions?"

"I'm don't know what the hell is going on in this world," Rock responded. "I'm not even sure if I understood that question. But sometimes, some days I just want to stop this planet and let me off."

Meghan McCain's book, Bad Republican, which is currently available in audio format on Audible, will be available at all bookstores in hardcopy from April 26.