The Aggrieved Aggressor’s Handbook many powerful men use when caught out, according to Arwa Mahdawi:

Step one: claim she was asking for it.

Step two: cast yourself as the victim.

Step three: weaponize the women in your life.

Big man Luis Rubiales has his mother on hunger strike for him, and big man Spazzo Pezzola had his wife and mother in the courtroom pleading his case.

#MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #GenderRoles #men

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/02/luis-rubiales-spain-football-world-cup-apology

Zimmer asks when precisely that golden era of free speech for which centrists hanker for us to return was in place. He answers:

"Unless we are talking about wealthy white Christian men only, it makes little sense to construct a version of U.S. history in which previous eras were characterized by greater freedom while the very recent past has been marked by a loss of free speech."

#nostalgia #polarization #CiivilRights #minorities #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism
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"The frequently invoked 'consensus' of the post-World War II era, for instance, was depending on both major parties agreeing that white patriarchal rule would remain largely untouched. …

"It wasn’t a coincidence that 'polarization' started when one party broke with the white elite consensus and supported – albeit reluctantly – the civil rights revolution of the 1960s."

#nostalgia #polarization #CiivilRights #minorities #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism
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There's a reason Trump appeals wildly to men — and to women who want their men to be "real" men, mean men, menacing men. Like Trump.

Like American men should be.'

What do I see in that mugshot?

That.

#Trump #mugshot #males #violence #MaleEntitlement #gender
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From boyhood forward, I've watched potentially violent men posture, all around me — behavior that's perfectly socially acceptable, because "This Is Just How Men Are." I've watched them walk around, neck drawn in, forehead lowered, eyes glowering upwards — because they think this behavior is intimidating.

It's "masculine."

It's macho.

It's "How Men Are" and "How Men Are Supposed to Be."

#Trump #mugshot #males #violence #MaleEntitlement #gender
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Part of the preparation to strike fear into its "enemy" was to intimidate the enemy with that lowered head and that glower out of the tops of the eyes.

This did not surprise me. My whole life long, as a boy who knew he was "different" and who felt much more at ease with women than with men during much of his boyhood, I've known that certain men — many men — are capable of violence.

#Trump #mugshot #males #violence #MaleEntitlement #gender
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"Trump has transformed his multiple indictments – particularly from Black prosecutors he has repeatedly called 'racist' – into just the latest proof point for the widespread belief within the GOP base that the biggest victims of discrimination are the groups most of them belong to: Christians, men and Whites."

~ Ron Brownstein

#FalseVictimhood #PoliticsofGrievance #Trump #Republican #racism #MaleEntitlement

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/politics/trump-gop-debate-fault-lines/index.html

As Nick El Hajj reports, Kuwait and Lebanon have moved to ban "Barbie" because, as the Lebanese Culture Minister states, the film has been found to was found to 'contradict values of faith and morality' and to 'promote homosexuality and sexual transformation.'

#Barbie #gender #GenderRoles #misogyny #homophobia #Kuwait #Lebanon #MaleEntitlement

https://apnews.com/article/mideast-barbie-movie-censorship-955390b933747bfc3f662022db2e4d9b

But I have news for all the men who cherish the idea that straight men own beer:

You may be shocked to hear this, but women drink beer.

So do gay men. So do lesbian women.

So do trans and intersex and queer folks.

You may think you own beer. But you do not.

And lots of straight people who care about LGBTQ people drink beer.

Astute corporations today realize that their market is diverse and they market explicitly to diverse communities for that reason.

#gender #MaleEntitlement #beer
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Man after man responded to that trans woman's critique with indignation, with the endless lessons some men love to issue to others on social media, with mockery of the claim that corporations can make a difference by standing up for minority communities.

The ire was directed against what the trans woman said about Bud Light.

Men own beer, of course. Straight men own beer.

This is self-evident.

#gender #MaleEntitlement #beer
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We men claim ownership of so much — of about everything — without ever giving a thought to the absurdity of the claim.

We take our entitlement for granted, then invent ideologies and a "god" made in our own image to bolster that entitlement.

This became very apparent to me this week when I posted critical commentary by a trans woman about how Target and Bud Light capitulated without a farethewell to homophobic haters, throwing their LGBTQ customers under the bus.

#gender #MaleEntitlement
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Georgia pastor Mike Stone, running for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention, says the church he pastors is the "strictest of the strict complementarians," and he wants this for the whole SBC.

Translation: I promote the dominance of heterosexual males like me over everyone else in the world, especially women and LGBTQ people. And I'm all about pretending that this is how God sees things, too,

#SouthernBaptists #complementarity #MaleEntitlement

https://baptistnews.com/article/sbc-presidential-candidate-describes-his-church-as-the-strictest-of-the-strict-complementarians/

"Steven Crowder telling his heavily pregnant wife she can't use their car to get groceries because she hasn't completed the 'wifely things' he requires of her is a perfect example of the way conservative men weaponize religious expectations to justify abuse."

#evangelicals #gender #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #violence
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https://www.newsweek.com/steven-crowder-punishes-pregnant-wife-not-doing-wifely-things-1797403

Sheila Wray Gregoire looks at a viral clip of "popular conservative commentator Steven Crowder, a professing Christian," verbally abusing his wife while he smokes a cigar, and concludes,

"If this is normal for Christian relationships, we’re in a lot of trouble."

Hillary Crowder was 8 months pregnant with twins at the time. Crowder told her she needed "discipline and respect" and threatened to f—k her up.

#evangelicals #gender #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #violence

https://baptistnews.com/article/on-steven-crowder-abuse-and-the-evangelical-definition-of-respect/

"The hard right, in other words, wants to revive an older social order, before the Civil Rights Movement, women’s and gay liberation movements, and other social and political transformations upset what was a thoroughly white-dominated, patriarchal society. Gender, then – how it is understood, practiced and described in our laws – is clearly of central concern to the hard right."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy #gender #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #misogyny #homophobia
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Cassie Miller writes,

"Christianity, many members of the American hard right contend, should hold a preeminent place in our society and even form the basis for our laws. White people, they (often implicitly) suggest, deserve to hold a dominant position in society because of their supposed innate superiority."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy #gender #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #misogyny #homophobia
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https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/04/18/male-supremacy-core-hard-rights-agenda

#MassShooting in U.S. statistics:
• Number of mass shootings since 2014: 4,175
• 97.7% were cis-males
• 52.3% were White
• 5% had severe #mentalillness
• 0.02% were trans
• 68.2% were linked to #DomesticViolence
• 100% had #guns

So instead of #transphobia or blaming #mentalhealth, why don't we point out the REAL reasons of #GunViolence:
• #GunCulture
• the fact we have more guns than people
• #RightWingExtremism
• #MaleEntitlement
• the lack of regulation and #GunControl

#politics #factcheck

"The fact that the white guys in the Arkansas Senate hold such a disproportionate number of seats that they could pass this legislation without the support of any female or Black senators should really be all you need to know about why this state still needs affirmative action."

It remains a straight white man's world, and those men are not about to yield power.

#Arkansas #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #racism #misogyny

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Ali Noland writes,

"Arkansas voters should take note of how blatantly self-serving it is for a group of straight, white, male lawmakers to pass a bill that will benefit them by taking opportunities away from women and minorities."

#Arkansas #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #racism #misogyny

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https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/03/12/white-men-in-the-arkansas-legislature-think-women-and-minorities-have-too-much-opportunity

"The world Christian nationalists want to build is not just about making America straight and cisgender, or about returning men to their supposed rightful place in the social hierarchy. It is also about making America a White nation."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #LGBTQ #WhiteSupremacy #racism #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism

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