New Republic: The Hypermasculine Violence of Omar Mateen and Brock Turner

The New Republic ^ | 06/14/2016 | Lisa Wade

[AC Beach Patrol]

America woke up this weekend to the news of the deadliest civilian mass shooting in the nation’s history. The senseless tragedy will undoubtedly evoke anger, sadness and helplessness.

In the meantime, many will forget to think and talk about Stanford swimmer Brock Turner’s crime and his “summer vacation” jail sentence: three months for the vile sexual assault of an unconscious woman.

As a sociologist, I was struck not by the abrupt shift to a new moral crisis, but by the continuity. Sociologists look for the bigger picture, and in my mind, Mateen’s crime didn’t displace Turner’s. Yet the media simply replaced one outrage with another, moving our attention away from Stanford and toward Orlando, as if these two crimes were unrelated. They’re not.

[AC Beach Patrol]

Truly bizarre. As the Sage of San Fran, Michael Savage, puts it, "Liberalism is a mental disorder." The fact that years ago I would dismiss this Savage line as hyperbolic shows that it was I who lacked perception and prescience about the way this society was moving.

[stinkerpot65]

Because men.

[showme_the_Glory]

Hyper masculine, micro aggression, just words. Didn’t the get the memo, words don’t matter?

[petercooper]

Is that the new lib talking point? Hypermasculine? Juan Williams on ‘The 5’ was blaming it on the guy being gay and his struggle with that. Juan is dumb as a stump.

[RichInOC]

Fingering a passed-out college girl and shooting up a packed nightclub aren’t in the same ballpark, the same team or even the same sport.

[ClearCase_guy]

A human being with a penis is an indicator of the kind of over-the-top hyper-masculinity thst this country needs to get rid of. /s

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Let me sum up the article. What both attacks have in common is that they were committed by men, and men suck.

[trebb]

She has no idea of what the concept of “masculinity” is. The only real connection is the liberal views/policies that try to emasculate men and make everyone willing sheep to the slaughter enabled by those policies.

[madprof98]

She is professor of sociology at Occidental College. There are students who have to take (and pass) courses from her and people like her. There is no hope whatsoever for a country in which this could happen.

[Steve_Seattle]

Hyper masculine? There is evidence that Mateen himself was gay. The guy arrested with guns near the Santa Monica gay parade was bisexual or gay.

The Federalist has an interesting article suggesting that Mateen's motive wasn't even anti-gay, but anti-American. He himself did not say he was acting to strike at gays as such, but against Americans, because of the war in Afghanistan.

[Steve_Seattle]

This is the new meme. Last night, there was a woman - a different woman - on the far-left “Democracy Now” show spewing the same “hyper-masculine” line.

[arthurus]

Ergo the national project to turn Men into women. It is a project zealously pursued in the schools from first grade. I have maintained for years that allowing one's children to be incarcerated every day in public school is child abuse. It is also Culture abuse and Republic abuse. No one who actually cares for his children allows them to go to public school.

[Steve_Seattle]

Fact: Widespread Muslim terrorism world-wide.

Liberal response: Islam has nothing to do with terrorism.

Fact: Muslim shoots up gay nightclub, killing 49.

Liberal response: It's Christians' fault.

[raybbr]

The author...

[Neoliberalnot]

It is a mental disease, no question. Rape and murder occur many times a day. Muslims are trained mass murderers, there have been quite a number of queers raping and mass murdering little boys, and sick men raping women; well, it probably happens a 100 times a day with 99% of them conscious.

[greene66]

Insane. Violating an unconscious woman, a homo who shoots up a homo nightclub. These are things that would historically be looked down upon and patently defined as “anti-masculine.”

But that’s obviously the point.... libs and cultural marxists re-defining everything, whether what constitutes one’s sex/gender, what constitutes marriage, and endless historical revisionism, with the re-defining of historical symbols and events. “Masculinity” must now be associated with all things vile, in this insanely pro-homo, pro-depraved American culture.

[Neoliberalnot]

She has no idea of what the concept of “masculinity” is. The only real connection is the liberal views/policies that try to emasculate men and make everyone willing sheep to the slaughter enabled by those policies.””

Bingo. It wouldn’t surprise me if the author is a dyke

[Lopeover]

Want to stop this kind of violence? Ban Islam in the US as it is not compatible with western civilization & the US Constitution!

[Gay State Conservative]

Two entirely different matters.Discussing them together shows the leftist bias of the author.As for Orlando it wasn't "hypermasculine".It wasn't even "hypermoslem".

It was just plain "moslem".

Hitler spelled out in detail what he had planned in Mein Kampf.That filthy medieval child molester spelled out what *he* had planned in the "koran".

And that includes hurling homosexuals from mountain tops.Not a lot of mountains in Florida so an AK-47 was used as a substitute.

[I want the USA back]

So brock turner and the subhuman worm of Orlando are the same? First clue that she is insane is that she is a sociologist.