"Our lack of honest conversation about the combustible interplay between America’s militaristic culture and personal machismo and their inherent contradictions means it won’t be long before we wake up to the next New Orleans."

#violence #Republicans #masculinity #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #Livelsberger #Jabbar #misogyny
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"It feels like if people are truly determined to find the political links to mass murder, it is hiding in plain sight — misogyny, and the role that a long overdue assault on the contradictions and unfairness of modern patriarchy is now playing in the current backlash of right-wing, populist and testosterone-laced political movements, and not just in America."

#violence #Republicans #masculinity #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #Livelsberger #Jabbar #misogyny
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As Will Bunch notes, though Livelsberger and Shamsud-Din Jabbar did not know each other, "their common bonds are striking." Both did military duty in Afghanistan. "And both, in their so-called minifestos of murder, sublimated their rage and feelings of misogyny to adopt a veneer of political rationalization."

#violence #Republicans #masculinity #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #Livelsberger #Jabbar #misogyny
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