Mass shooters in the United States are overwhelmingly men. This has prompted experts, like Dr. Jackson Katz, to argue that masculinity, rather than guns or mental illness, should be at the forefront of the national conversation on what causes mass shootings.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-katz/men-gender-gun-violence_b_2308522.html
This article follows a similar line of thought in discussing the Columbine shooters’ “damaged masculinity” (4/20 was the anniversary of the Columbine massacre). The article discusses how one of the shooters was born with birth defects that required surgery and gave him a sunken, frail chest. As a result, he had difficulty gaining acceptance as strong or traditionally masculine, and so turned to guns to give him a sense of power and control.
I think a conversation on masculinity as it relates to mass shooters is important for two reasons. First, while gun control is an important issue, women have generally the same access to guns and yet aren’t committing mass murders at the same rate, indicating there is some kind of relationship between masculinity and mass shootings. Second, the national conversation regarding mental illness in the wake of mass shootings only serves to stigmatize the mentally ill, the vast majority of whom are not violent and are more likely to be the victims of violence than to commit it.
I think positive, healthy discussions regarding masculinity can help men by allowing them to construct their own masculine identity- one that doesn’t need to be reinforced through violence. This can help both men on an individual level and societal level by allowing them to feel secure in their identity.
>>71746979
Fuck you OP.
Sandy hook and the boston bombings were hoaxes.
The gov. is using these staged events as a way to take our gun rights away
>>71746979
almost all violent crime is committed overwhelmingly by blacks, let's see an article about that
If there's toxic masculinity could there also be toxic femininity? I think that only affects other women that are driven to suicide, though.
>>71747167
Toxic negrinity?
>>71746979
>This has prompted experts, like Dr. Jackson Katz, to argue that masculinity, rather than guns or mental illness, should be at the forefront of the national conversation on what causes mass shootings.
First they kick us in the balls, now they're going to chop 'em off. You can choose - your balls or your guns.
>>71746979
They forgot to mention the part were all mass shooters were taking anti depressants, which are known to cause suicidal tendencies among young people in general. Stupid.
>>71746979
Friendly reminder that whites and males are the only group descriptors that line up with a historical abilityto meaningfully resist centraluzed government. Others get mad and resort to easily controlled tantrums but they have no discipline, no organization, no deconstructioning thought. Whites and males are being marginalized or shoved out of the way to make an easier time for unaccountable one-world government.
>>71746979
As long as there are people, there will be sociopaths who go on murderous rampages. Deal with it.
>>71747553
And that's why both the EU and UN want all white males disarmed and replaced by blacks with an IQ of 65, thus lowering overall IQ rates among the whole population making them easier to submit.
>>71747469
just "negrinity".
>>71746979
>The article discusses how one of the shooters was born with birth defects that required surgery and gave him a sunken, frail chest. As a result, he had difficulty gaining acceptance as strong or traditionally masculine, and so turned to guns to give him a sense of power and control
That sounds like bullshit, let me correct it:
>As a result, he had difficulty getting laid because women wouldn't find him attractive
As usual most shooters would have been easily saved by a woman but they were all too busy sucking alpha dick.
Femenism is the reason why.
>>71746979
Anyone got her nudes?
>>71746979
Feminism is the root cause
>>katz
guess who runs both the porn industry AND feminism AND the mainstream media that shames men?
>>71746979
Mass shooters are actually mostly black. I bet they won't talk about that though.
>>71746979
I was about to give some credence to him until I saw that he is a cultural theorist and attributes ideas masculinity and revenge solely to culture.
Masculinity is derived directly from testosterone and the wiring of the male brain, and people are physiologically wired to exact violence when angered.
It is not surprising to find the ideas of masculinity and violence present in culture, but it would be absurd to suggest that it is the culture that is the sole cause of these things; it is precisely the opposite.
>>71746979
Clearly the answer is to make men more like women.
>>71746979
More like Toxic whiteness
>>71746979
>Katz
Lemme guess.
>>71746979
>Inverse propotional relationship identifies cause.
Brought to you by the same folks who are trying to sell anthropogenic global warming.
Emasculation is the only thing responsible for mass shootings.
Seriously I need those Carlee Soto nudes
>>71747527
Well we have guns so I dare you to come for my balls
>>71747086
yup, sad thing is people don't realise trump is part of it and now next election we will be voting between two gun grabbers.
>>71746979
My 2 cents
>>71747553
>Whites and males are being marginalized or shoved out of the way to make an easier time for unaccountable one-world government.
well at this point white people have so varied political ideologies that they couldnt form any threatening organization.
we're already past divide & conquer
Every fucking gun thread.
I won't even grace the gun grabbers proper conversation.
You bunch are a lost cause.
I just need to convince the ones on the fence that gun control=not even once.
Toxic Masculinity?
More like emasculation and the absence of proper father figures.
Bill Whittle's Solution to Gun Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwLjFm6GMBM
Number ONE with a bullet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELwCqz2JfE
>>71746979
Correlation is not causation and read Brave New World
>>71746979
No psychopathy, women are so mindless they cant think outside of gynocentric reality at all.
>>71749622
Underrated
>>71746979
Masculinity is at an all time low.
>>71749622
This
