masculinity

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/29/2023
  

  Mass Shootings Reflect the Narcissism of Young Men

  by Tom Nichols

  The injured grandiosity of "failed to launch" young men is pushing them to seek outsize revenge, often using the readily available guns. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  1/19/2023
  

  Masculinity and Trauma in War and Football

  by Sarah Handley-Cousins

  Sports have been cast as a (relatively) peaceful way of inculcating a set of masculine virtues otherwise associated with war. But the experience of injury and grief will continue to confound the rules of manhood—and football fans and citizens should pay attention. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2022
  

  Is Messi the Avatar of a Post-Macho Argentina?

  by Brenda Elsey

  Lionel Messi's tenure at the top of the soccer world has coincided with an upsurge of feminism in Argentina and its sports culture, changes Messi has quietly supported. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/1/2022
  

  Pickup Trucks: Less Needed for Work, More Needed to Signal Masculinity?

  Historian Mark Metzler Sawin explains why pickup trucks are the top-selling vehicles in America, even as the country is more urbanized and less engaged with farm and manual labor than ever before. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/8/2022
  

  How Toxic is Masculinity, and Whose Job Is it to Fix It?

  Historian Ivan Jablonka's history of the idea of patriarchy suggests that feminists should recognize the current wave of male grievance as an opportunity to renegotiate the entire social compact of gender that has been built up over centuries of male power. 

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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.