Posted on 07/08/2020 1:52:03 PM PDT by libh8er
In today’s refusal to wear a mask, we see echoes of this condom rejection embedded in white masculine ideology. Led by the Masculinity Performer in Chief, these men are making what increasingly looks like the last stand for that celluloid masculinity. As in another infamous “last stand,” they risk ending up dead on the battlefield they insisted on creating, along with the casualties they take with them.
A lot of people are baffled at this behavior—at balking at something so basic, a disease transmission preventative that has such a low barrier to access. Why do these men perform this mask-free “celluloid masculinity” in the literal face of a threat? The reason is that eschewing a mask sends a strong social signal, in which the bare face is the performance. But who is the audience?
Understanding this behavior requires understanding the level of investment that these men have made in their masculine ideology. Trump, reality notwithstanding, is the high priest of this ideology. When he rejected masks, his became the performance to imitate. These men have made a deep commitment and probably engaged in some willful self-deception to remain loyal to Trump. Donning a mask would mean wasting their investment and the perceived fruits of all that self-compromise.
So, they go maskless. In doing so, they expect that their masculine ideology group will accept them, respect them and not reject them.
The irony is that these men think they're manifesting the ideal of the rugged, individualistic American, when their refusal really traces in part to a fear of what other people will think about them. Drunk on a toxic brew of self-interest and that masculine ideology, they mistake their refusal to protect themselves and others as a mark of character when instead, it's a mark on their characters.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
Lol. They’re reduced to unintended comedy.
She could use a mask. Better yet, a burka.
Scientific? They should be ashamed.
The very first sentence of an article in what, these days, is considered a scientific periodical.
We may be entering a dark age... for real.
maybe the most ridiculous thing.....
I used to read Scientific American.
Back when it had some pretty good real science articles.
But this?
It’s CNN level science.
Scientific?? Unamerican.
“condom rejection embedded in white masculine ideology”
yeah, black guys always wear condoms... LOLOLOL
To a hammer, everything is a nail.
“We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
So I guess all the women not wearing masks are identifying as men. It hard to keep track of all the rules these days.
This is just another attempt at gettung people to herd. When they are reduced to this, they know they are losing the argument with a segment of the population.
This woman is an idiot.
Great example why I gave up Sci Am years ago.
What a retard....from a white masculinity perspective, of course.
I call my white ones “face diapers.”
“Scientific American” is not really American and not really scientific either. The Communist Piel (sp) family took it over and the wife of the duo also runs the Emergency Civil Liberties Organization — a bsrely concealed Communist front.
well it’s clear a non-man wrote this
it never even crossed my mind to even think of a mask this way for one second
guess its why women like wearing them so much, all that unconscious penis envy working its way out
I have every issue of Scientific American starting with the first one I bought in April 64, 56 years worth. I am ready to call it quits after my current subscription ends. They’ve devolved mostly into woke science, preachy, opinionated and speculative rather than science based.
Of course it had to be written by a woman.
Until then, this entire mask business is a friggin' joke.
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