"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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"Americans are burned-out, frustrated, and hunting for scapegoats. And here [in Shia LaBeouf's assault of some gay men in New Orleans as he slung the word 'fagg-t' around] was another sign of gathering resentment toward queer people—of a new wave of homophobia rooted, in part, in the strange state of straight men."

~ Spencer Kornhaber

#homophobia #MAGA #LGBTQ #men #YoungMen #Trump #machismo #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #patriarchy
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https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/03/modern-homophobia/686547/

The Surprising Reason for the New Homophobia

Americans are burned-out, frustrated, and hunting for scapegoats.

The Atlantic

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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Vivian Yee reports on King's Way Reformed church at Prescott, Arizona, which belongs to the same Reformed communion to which Pete Hegseth belongs. Kings' way is pastored by Dale Partridge, whom people drive from miles away to hear preaching on Sunday — as women in the congregation tie scarves on their heads to symbolize their submission to males.

#WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth #women #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/household-vote-women.html

Supporters of Household Voting Believe U.S. Would Be Better Off Without Women’s Vote

Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote — the husband’s. They say the idea is catching on.

The New York Times

"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

Sunday Stretch: Easter 2026

He is Risen Indeed, Alleluia!

I'm Listening