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.
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Total nonsense.
I am still waiting for the nuclear war that Scientific American assured us would happen if Reagan deployed the Pershing missiles to Europe.
This is laughably stupid.
Actually someone more evolved than a woman. A womxn.
I want to get this war with Karens over with.
I don’t don a mask just to get the Karens worked up.
In the first sentence of this article, we see thunderous echoes of the writers anti-male bias, where everything a man does is related to his alleged desire to get his private parts together with a woman's.
There is no consideration for a mask refusal based on the actual science and politics behind the masking demands.
I call it a nappie or McMaster nappie.
https://tenor.com/view/pallottola-spuntata-leslie-nielsen-leslienielsen-gif-9099214
Let’s see if this works?
Masks are made to prevent transmission of bacterial infections. They do little to nothing to prevent much smaller virus particles from either coming or going. Just because a doctor says they do does not make it true. The current running mortality rate is a bit less than 1% and the hospitalization rates are very low. When you flatten the curve, you stretch out the period of time it will take to expose/infect the same numbers in the population. Testing positive without symptoms or requirement to hospitalize is not an indication of mortality rate. This is a scamdemic in the year of living stupid.
Scientific American used to be a good magazine about SCIENCE. It has become neither scientific nor American.
Una pallottola spuntata
YES!!! It works?
Pat Buchanan’s love child from some one night stand with a mental patient?
Retard
Scientific American used to be a good magazine about SCIENCE. It has become neither scientific nor American.
A lot of what is spoken or written today isn’t science, because it starts with a conclusion, followed by cherry picking and confirmation bias. Saying that we should automatically assume that protesters cannot spread COVID-19 is one such assumption.
I love wearing those masks i dont have to put my teeth in when i go shopping anymore
Scientific American’s fall into pure garbage has been long and hard. It used to be a respected magazine.
When I was growing up we called it pseudoscience.
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