Mass shootings are a pressing issue in the U.S. And gun control is an important part of this problem. But, when we focus only on the guns, we sometimes gloss over an important fact: Mass shootings are also enactments of masculinity. And they will continue to occur when this fact is combined with a sense among some men that male privilege is a birthright—and one that many feel unjustly denied.


kleinbl00:

You know you're from New Mexico if

...you fact check the mass murder map. They missed at least two: Ricky Abeyta, walking distance from my grandparents' house, and Hollywood Video, where my buddies used to get their tapes. That said:

    Michael Kimmel suggests that these changes have produced a uniquely American gendered sentiment that he calls “aggrieved entitlement.” Of course, being pissed off about an inability to cash in on privileges previous generations of men received without question doesn’t always lead to mass shootings. But, from this cultural perspective, mass shootings can be understood as an extremely violent example of a more general issue regarding changes in relations between men and women and historical transformations in gender, race, and class inequality.

Sounds legit.

I created /r/aggrievedentitlement, by the way. because holy shit what a lovely phrase to describe Red Pillers.


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