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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/15/2022
The Right Celebrated Bernhard Goetz as the Kyle Rittenhouse of the 80s
by Pia Beumer
In the context of economic turmoil, urban crisis, and racial division, a broad swath of the American public made Goetz a heroic symbol of restored white masculinity after he shot four Black teens who asked him for money on the New York subway.
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
4/20/2022
Tucker Carlson Heralds Yet Another "Crisis of Masculinity"
by Mona Charen
Tucker Carlson's recent examination of testicular tanning as a boost to manliness shows the need for societies to support pathways to male expression that don't lead to violence or painful sunburns.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/23/2022
The Sandy Hook Settlement Could Transform the Marketing of Guns
by Tracy L. Barnett
The settlement between Remington and the families of victims does not accept fault, but it does establish the dangerous connection between the marketing of guns as totems of masculinity and the damage done by young men who acquire them with ease.
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SOURCE: Uncivil Religion
1/6/2021
Braveheart: President Donald J. Trump
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Following the threads of religion and nationalism that form the unlikely comparison between Trump and Mel Gibson's (heavily mythologized) Scottish movie hero.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/4/2021
Josh Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Republican Obsession with Manliness
Journalist Liza Featherstone argues that Senator Josh Hawley, who wrote a book on Theodore Roosevelt, is missing the irony of harkening back to TR as an exemplar of manliness: Roosevelt was plagued by the same obsessions with masculinity that the Republicans today are stoking.
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SOURCE: Georgia Public Broadcasting
11/12/2021
Historian Kristin Kobes-Du Mez: Hawley Latest to Politicize So-Called Threats to Masculinity
"It's never entirely clear how he defines masculinity, even though he's quite certain that masculinity is under attack, and the left is trying to do away with real men."
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SOURCE: Public Seminar
10/6/2021
Don't Feel Guilty for Loving Football (Just Be Honest About It)
by Stephen T. Casper
"Football is not going away, so don’t feel guilty above loving the game. But do stop quibbling about whether football is dangerous—and be radically honest about how dangerous it is."
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SOURCE: Public Seminar
10/6/2021
Why Hollywood Can't Change a Diaper
by Janet Golden
While Hollywood portrayals of motherhood have adapted to incorporate single and working mothers, popular culture images of fatherhood have remained stubbornly stuck in the past. Would supports for child care and parental leave in the budget reconciliation bill help bring movie dads up to date?
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SOURCE: JStor Daily
9/30/2021
Masculinity, Pacifism and Politics: Abolitionist Parker Pillsbury
"Pillsbury and other Garrisonians despised the romanticization of male violence, perhaps partly because they were on the receiving end of so much of it. They derided white southern men as drunkards with a tendency to use harsh violence against both enslaved people and white women."
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SOURCE: Dissent
8/30/2021
Daddy Issues
by Bethany Moreton
White American Christians have embraced aggressive patriarchy as access to social and economic power has become more concentrated in fewer hands.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/23/2021
When Men Started to Obsess Over Six-Packs
by Conor Heffernan
Today's culture of Instagrammed abdominal muscles traces back to the time when nineteenth-century physical culture movements converged with the archaeological discovery of ancient Greek statuary (bodybuilders then used the new technology of photography in ways we'd recognize).
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
12/5/2020
Performance Anxiety: How Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines Shaped Soldiers’ (Mis)Understandings of the Vietnam War (Review)
by Nicholas Utzig
A consideration of Gregory Daddis's book "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines."
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SOURCE: The Revealer
11/12/2020
On Evangelical Masculinities (Review)
Journalist Daniel José Camacho reviews Kristin Kobes Du Mez's book "Jesus and John Wayne" and considers the way that masculinities are expressed in non-white evangelical communities.
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SOURCE: NPR
10/28/2020
Trump Has Weaponized Masculinity As President. Here's Why It Matters
Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez says Donald Trump's aggressively masculine political posture is dysfunctional because it requires enemies.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/15/2020
Trump, Biden and Masculinity in the Age of Coronavirus
Trump and Biden both seek to embody a masculine ideal on the campaign trail, but the differences in each candidate's vision of what manliness is show that the idea is changing.
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10/11/2020
Fear of the "Pussification" of America: A Short Cultural History
by Gregory A. Daddis
The bizarre idea that COVID-19 can be defeated through manliness is one of the stranger cultural themes of our time, but it connects to a long history of anxiety about masculinity in a changing America that encourages violent and even self-destructive actions in the name of proving virility.
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Chivalry Isn't Dead
by David Patten
It’s official; newspapers, TV, radio, and online news reports all announced it; male chivalry is nothing but a myth. Two Swedish economists, Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson, exposed the reality of male selfishness in their study, “Every Man for Himself, Gender, Norms, and Survival in Maritime Disasters”, published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The authors claimed to have studied three centuries of shipwrecks, culling statistical data and quantitative research in the process. Their conclusions: men, utilizing their generally superior strength, selfishly disregard the plight of the women and children in order to save themselves. They point to the statistical survival rates of women and children in the shipwrecks included in their work. The results are very discouraging for women and children and completely destroy the concept of the chivalrous male. Rather than “women and children first,” the prevailing sentiment in such disasters is truly, “every man for himself,” with the emphasis on men.
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SOURCE: Special to HNN
1-10-13
Ron Briley: Review of Robert O. Self's "All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s" (Hill and Wang, 2012)
Ron Briley reviews books for the History News Network and is a history teacher and an assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity
by Gary Cross
The old always seem to blame the young for the downfall of civilization.
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