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The things cishet middle-class white guys do to make themselves appear more interesting often fascinate me. You have:
1. The culture voyeur. Your Quentin Tarantino types, the ones who co-opt aesthetics originated by Black people and other communities of colour with smug superiority.
2. The gentrifier of quirkiness. Your Tim Burton types who don't understand the politics of being an outcast but they do like the aesthetics of being one. Gives, "I'm weird, I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in, and I don't want to fit in" energy.
3. The working class poser. Basically, Jon Bernthal, in a nutshell. These are men born into affluent families who work in high places and attended prep school. They adore cops and military, and often, it feels like they are cosplaying working class types as a way to prove their masculinity. Definitely a podcast and gym bro.
still thinking about letterkenny season 12
Mcmurray being 100% hick in rejecting the degens and Derry for aligning himself with them
Wayne respecting mcmurray’s position because he’s right, they aren’t friends with degens, and if Derry is a degen that means he’s not McMurrays friend
Wayne also knowing those life rules enough to find the out- just like Wayne will help Derry in a fight, even if it’s for a gal who cheated on him, so too can mcmurray help Wayne as a friend, even if it’s for a cause he doesn’t believe in
The way the season shows how radicalization can happen- Derry feels a little disaffected from his community, and warmly welcomed by the degens, and then when he starts to see the cracks in the facade of the degens, he feels like he’s overly committed and can’t go back. The hicks were kinda bad friends to Derry, teasing him too much at the comedy night, and they wanted him to change his wardrobe, but the degens show they want him to change his values, to be proud of being a degen and pressuring him to participate in the shooting game. It’s especially sharp that even when Derry knows he could go back, his pride won’t allow him to. It takes the hicks humbling themselves, being willing to go to Derry even after he’s rejected them, skirting their own code of conduct, and saving him from physical harm to get him back into the fold.
Especially in a show that’s interested in showing realistic but positive portrayals of white masculinity (in contrast to feminity, non-whiteness, and various toxic modes of masculinity), it’s so important that the series shows both good people getting radicalized into a bad group and a path out of that lifestyle, one that takes courage from both the person radicalized and those that love him and want him back.
So here's the deal. Mental health plays a role in these shootings, however it is not the primary issue. I joke about toxic masculinity, but please please please understand this when I say shootings are some of the worst case scenarios produced by toxic masculinity. We talk about how these shooters are mentally ill, what kinds of guns they use (and yes that's a huge problem. We've lost some really important protective legislation), but never who is doing the shootings. Mass shootings are overwhelmingly committed by men (about 92%), and the majority of those men are white (about 54%). We need to talk about violence and masculinity in general and white masculinity specifically. This isn't about mental illness. It isn't about bad parenting or "kids these days." It's about easy accessibility to guns for virtually anyone. It's about a culture of tolerance for violence committed by men. It's about validating white supremacist beliefs. We don't want to talk about this, but we have to. If we don't, children are going to continue dying at school.
i absolutely think all religions are fair game for criticism. but. while i generally enjoy this page, it really isn't a white man's place to foist this imperial mindset on brown women who use a hijab. in the comments, he mocks someone for bringing up race and gender, suggesting that such things are not relevant. he fails to recognize *his* gender and *his* race, falling into the all too common white male stance of assuming their position and perception are the norm/default.
