Sir Rochard 'Dock' BunsonToxic masculinity is the gateway drug to fascism.
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Misogyny is central to a lot of authoritarian bullshit.
Misogyny is central to a lot of authoritarian bullshit.
Guitarsophist@SrRochardBunson Isn't it more like giving insecure losers jackboots and making them goosestep?
Pria@SrRochardBunson this was written before the term toxic masculinity was in play, but provides a chilling and prescient review of how masculinities of soldiers after WW1 primed then for fascism and the rise of the Nazi Party. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/male-fantasies-vol-1
Male Fantasies: Volume 1
These two volumes center upon the fantasies that preoccupied a group of men who played a crucial role in the rise of Nazism. Theweleit draws upon the novels, letters, and autobiographies of these proto-fascists and their contemporaries, seeking out and reconstructing their images of women. Heavily illustrated with cartoons, advertisements, engravings, and posters of the era.