"And maybe queer people can show how. After all, the gay archetype encompasses more than just stereotypical titans of industry and hunky Adonises; it includes so many of society’s pivotal artists and writers and thinkers. Alienation doesn’t only spur people to conquer the system that alienated them. It can instead provoke a quest to creatively redefine success on one’s own terms."

#homophobia #MAGA #LGBTQ #men #YoungMen #Trump #machismo #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #patriarchy
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"The irony is that a minority once viewed as filled with sissies and losers is now portrayed as filled with bullies and power brokers, and straight people, especially men, seem to perceive themselves as the weak and afraid ones. …

Maybe, as the cartoonish machismo of Trumpism proves its hollowness, America’s latent resentment can be channeled to better ends."

#homophobia #MAGA #LGBTQ #men #YoungMen #Trump #machismo #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #patriarchy
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"During the 2020s, measures of intra-group prejudices of all sorts—racism, sexism, ageism—have been rising, according to a New York Times article about the return of homophobia by Charlesworth and her Northwestern colleague Eli J. Finkel."

#homophobia #MAGA #LGBTQ #men #YoungMen #Trump #machismo #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #patriarchy
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"Less intuitively, the trend line of long-declining homophobia reversed, resulting in a 10-point jump for explicit anti-gay bias over that same period. …

This wave is one symptom of a broader cultural regression."

#homophobia #MAGA #LGBTQ #men #YoungMen #Trump #machismo #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #patriarchy
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"Pollsters began noting diminishing approval for LGBTQ legal protections [in the early 2020s]. As trans issues became inescapable in polarized national politics, explicit anti-trans bias spiked 16 percent from 2021 to 2024, according to Charlesworth, Banaji, and the researcher Meriel Doyle."

#homophobia #MAGA #LGBTQ #men #YoungMen #Trump #machismo #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #patriarchy
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Women were made to look pretty and be loved, not to involve their pretty little heads in political or business matters, says the church's assistant pastor Corbin Clarke. His wife agrees, saying that "God" designed things to work that way.

This model is coming for all of us sooner than we think, is going to be imposed on all of us, if we stand by and let that happen.

#WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth #women #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #WhiteChristianNationalism #LGBTQ #Catholic #Islam #Hinduism
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Partridge's message:

"On social media, the pastor has attracted a following by posting incendiary commentary: railing against feminists, Catholics and gay people, describing immigration as 'national suicide,' and labeling Islam and Hinduism 'demonic.' He also calls for erasing women’s suffrage, which he lists as one reason 'the world is falling apart.'”

#WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth #women #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #WhiteChristianNationalism #LGBTQ #Catholic #Islam #Hinduism
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"God has not come to kill and destroy, in order that only a few select white American Christians might rule in absolute power.

But God has come so that all may have life, and have it abundantly."

~ Angela Denker

#Easter #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #violence #death #destruction
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https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/sunday-stretch-easter-2026