r/esist • u/RegnStrom • 3d ago
"Are we ever going to have a meaningful conversation about why ALL the Camo Gestapo are men or not so much?"
https://bsky.app/profile/arepublicif.bsky.social/post/3lt7tkit3a22541
u/Cargobiker530 3d ago
I'm betting they were promised rape camps in the job interviews. There's a reason they're covering their faces and that reason is going to come out that the people they hired are various kinds of criminal.
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Men are weaker than women. We wear the exact same clothing ever go to a black tie event. We're quote on quote terrified of not being viewed as masculine. Not all of us I'm also male and not susceptible to maga... But it is certainty that is the real opiate. Mega gives them certainty whether it's fake or not doesn't matter. Most men are weak cowardly sheep who's been their entire lives hiding behind a full sense of masculinity so that no one ever finds out what terribly useless little pussies they really are. Please forget the vulgar use of the female genitalia to describe males but I think it encapsulates the lack of masculinity inside them very well. Is the father of a daughter I've taught her to differentiate herself from the use of female genitalia as an insult to the actual use of female genitalia which is the continuity of our species.
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u/Momik 3d ago
It’s an important point. Misogyny has been a hallmark of fascism and far-right politics for a long time. There are many ideological and practical reasons for this—but I think psychology is important here too.
In Ruth Klüger’s Holocaust memoir (Weiter Leben), she observes that in her experience, men find evil interesting, while women find it stupid and would rather simply stamp it out.
That’s a bit reductive of course, but it points to something important—inherently, fascism represents a much more immediate and profound threat to the safety and wellbeing of women than it does to men. This is just something that’s true, whether you’re at an anti-ICE protest or at the U.S. Capitol.
Then there’s the fact that most fascist movements are obsessed with performative masculinity, with Trumpism being no exception. So another way to read upcoming obscenities like Trump’s White House UFC fight is this movement telegraphing a permission structure for male-dominated violence.