"Violence is an overwhelmingly male endeavor. Is there any way to fix that? ...

As we talk about the 'boy crisis' and crises of masculinity and the rise of the reactionary male right – not to mention the politics and meaning of gender itself – it behooves us to understand why violence is such a male endeavor, and what we might be able to do to lessen it."

~ Jill Filipovic

#men #masculinity #guns #violence #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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jill.substack.com/p/the-angry-…

The Angry Young Man Problem

^{Jill Filipovic}

"They’re not killed by women in the workforce, or by not cleaning their rooms, or by people pointing out that toxic masculinity exists, or by trans people, or by Democrats who dare to point out that Gavin Newsom sucks. They’re killed by guns."

#men #masculinity #guns #violence #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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After several heinous and highly publicized mass shootings predictably done by — you guessed it: men — Noah Berlatsky responds to the never-ending "boys are at risk" and "masculinity is under siege" folderol by noting:

"Men aren't lonely. they just have guns.

Men are not killed by feminism. They’re not killed by femininity."

#men #masculinity #guns #violence #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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everythingishorrible.net/p/men…

Men Aren't Lonely. They Just Have Guns.

The real crisis of masculinity

^{Noah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)}

"The gesture towards divine power invokes an American taboo -- we are not to criticize anyone who invokes God, no matter how obviously hypocritical and self-serving, as in this case. The taboo, once summoned, prevents us from seeing the obvious, fundamental thing: a basic reason that we have government is to prevent us from becoming a society in which we simply shoot one another all the time."

#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself. It is not a response to the anarchy of gun violence. It is a normalization of it and one of the preconditions to its repetition and spread."

~ Timothy Snyder

#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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snyder.substack.com/p/what-a-t…

What a terrible thing it is

Mass shootings as regime change

^{Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)}

"Thoughts and prayers. The laziest phrase in the American lexicon. It costs nothing. It risks nothing. And it changes absolutely nothing."

#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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"Thoughts and prayers for the students senselessly murdered at Brown University. Thoughts and prayers for Jewish families in Australia who gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah, only to watch Day Two transform into a memorial after antisemitic violence shattered what should have been joy."

~ Michael Cohen

#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms #ThoughtsandPrayers #platitudes #EmptyPiety
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meidasplus.com/p/the-politics-…

The Politics of Hollow Platitudes

Thoughts and prayers have become America’s ritual of surrender; comforting the powerful, silencing accountability, and ensuring the next memorial is already being planned.

^{Michael Cohen (Meidas+)}

"One day, one way or another, in a land with more firearms than people, gun violence is going to come home."

~ Will Bunch

#MassShootings #BrownUniversity #guns #GunViolence #firearms
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inquirer.com/opinion/brown-uni…

Mass shooting at Brown U.: When gun heartbreak comes home

A mass shooting at my alma mater is a gutting reminder that no one is safe until we tackle America's gun crisis.

^{Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)}

USA Mass Shooting: “RUN!" "WHERE ARE THE GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS?? PRAY!”

Australia Mass Shooting: “Hold my Beer. *tackles shooter*. Enough of that. New gun laws incoming, mate.”

#BondiBeach #BrownU #Guns #NRA

bbc.com/news/videos/c62l00q1v8…

Eyewitness captures moment man tackles and disarms shooter

New South Wales Police say that 11 people were killed, plus one gunman, in a shooting at Bondi Beach targeting the Jewish community.

^www.bbc.com

“'I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.'

What kind of God would want people to have the right to gun down students?"

#CharlieKirk #ErikaKirk #CBS #BariWeiss #MAGA #Republicans #MassShootings #guns #BrownUniversity
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"On the same night that CBS gave Erika Kirk a 90-minute propaganda platform, we also saw 2 students killed and 8 critically wounded in a mass shooting at Brown University. Let me repeat the very words that Charlie Kirk said about mass shootings –"

~ Greg Meyer

#CharlieKirk #ErikaKirk #CBS #BariWeiss #MAGA #Republicans #MassShootings #guns #BrownUniversity
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