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Prof suggests 'toxic masculinity' caused Las Vegas massacre
Campus Reform ^ | October 10, 2017 | John Hasson

Posted on 10/11/2017 6:46:58 AM PDT by Zakeet

Mass shootings, including the recent Las Vegas massacre, are caused by "toxic masculinity," according to a professor at Columbia College Chicago.

Last week, shortly after the horrific shooting in Las Vegas, Philosophy professor Stephen Asma tweeted a link to an op-ed he had written for Aeon in 2016 arguing that "toxic masculinity fuels mass shootings."

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"The facts of toxic masculinity are rarely discussed after mass shootings, as we beat the usual drums of gun control and mental health ... But consider the bigger evolutionary picture,' Asma writes in the op-ed. “Social life requires the domestication of men ... Males must transform from little tyrants, competing for females, to selfless bodyguards and potential providers."

Asma then asserts that if a man is unable to obtain a partner, he remains "emotionally juvenile-aggressively impulsive, self-serving, and potentially violent," and may even "take up a disdainful hostility towards domestication itself."

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academicbias; education; guns; lasvegas; masculinity
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You guys don't want to be emotionally juvenile-aggressively impulsive, self-serving, and potentially violent ... so you're going to have to give up your redneck gun loving, flag waving, All American ways ... and behave like the above idiot!

1 posted on 10/11/2017 6:46:58 AM PDT by Zakeet
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It’s for sure that the subject of those photos has never been accused of masculinity, even non-toxic masculinity.


2 posted on 10/11/2017 6:49:11 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Perhaps this professor can lead by example and have his tinkle toys surgically removed?


3 posted on 10/11/2017 6:50:14 AM PDT by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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“Social life requires the domestication of men ... Males must transform from little tyrants, competing for females, to selfless bodyguards and potential providers.”


What would feminist types think of this reasoning? I’ve heard them condemn ideas that somehow women are to domesticate single men. So this writer is saying, that an “undomesticated” male is likely to be a mass shooter. Well then, who exactly is supposed to “domesticate” such males?


4 posted on 10/11/2017 6:50:20 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Zakeet

perhaps toxic masculinity “envy” might be more on point.


5 posted on 10/11/2017 6:50:28 AM PDT by avital2
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To: Zakeet

Toxic masculinity: nice term for islamism


6 posted on 10/11/2017 6:52:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Zakeet

Those photos make my skin crawl...


7 posted on 10/11/2017 6:53:34 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Zakeet

Just another Marxist troll trolling one of our “college” campuses.


8 posted on 10/11/2017 6:54:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Second Amendment. NOW more than ever!)
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“Educated” retards.


9 posted on 10/11/2017 6:55:07 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Zakeet

Professor Asthma

10 posted on 10/11/2017 6:56:06 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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He is giving an academic version of traditional values. Men get married, and devote their energy to taking care of their wives and children rather than fighting with other men. This is news?

I’m not sure how this applies to Paddock, as he was 64, had a lot of money, and a girlfriend.


11 posted on 10/11/2017 6:59:54 AM PDT by proxy_user
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The laughs should start at “Professor says...”


12 posted on 10/11/2017 7:00:52 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: Zakeet

Fake News,
seriesly..


13 posted on 10/11/2017 7:04:55 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Zakeet

Everything is politicized. Mark of insanity.


14 posted on 10/11/2017 7:06:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (*slam is a violent political movement that hides behind the illusion of religion.)
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...because sexually-frustrated men rebel against domestication.


Wait. Wasn’t this in a state where prostitution is legal


15 posted on 10/11/2017 7:07:53 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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Notice the only thing he has to back up this assertion is his own imagination and psycho babble.


16 posted on 10/11/2017 7:08:42 AM PDT by circlecity
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These people actually believe all this baloney they spew forth! It is a mass delusion!


17 posted on 10/11/2017 7:10:14 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Those who want to repeat history prevent others from knowing it.)
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Guys who use the phrase “toxic masculinity” usually have boyfriends.....

Then he asserts sexual frustration as the driver...

Well except that the LV shooter was buying hookers left and right...


18 posted on 10/11/2017 7:10:17 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Zakeet

No one cares what collig professors and know-it-all students think or write in op-ed collig rags anymore.


19 posted on 10/11/2017 7:13:22 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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Maybe this guy was a mirror image of Weinstein. Could be a plot for a movie.


20 posted on 10/11/2017 7:14:31 AM PDT by Enterprise (Do away with all symbols of past slavery. Start with the Democrat Party.)
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