These are not men. They are unregulated, dysfunctional boys. And as a psychotherapist, I can say with certainty that they are self-haters. Men who feel confident in their own masculinity do not hate themselves, so they do not hate women--they prize and protect them. Thank you for shining a light on these very immature and maladjusted males.
And the saddest and least "manly" of all is Stephen Miller who said "Texas Democrats nominated their first transgender Senate candidate," a really pathetic overreach indicative of fear and weakness on Miller's part.
Thank you. People also need to recognize that PTSD and the impact of trauma—something men and women experience—are powerful, unacknowledged influences and can sometimes cause people to act in less than appropriate ways.
1 I hate those MAGA dudes, for starters. Their misogyny & child abuse dials that hate to red hot.
2 Mr Graham Platner and Mr Hunter Biden may prove to be two of the best 'role models' any Party could have. It might be worthwhile to spend time with both of them to ensure that becomes reality.
Seeing the toxic masculinity harming people is burning a hole through your chest. Misogyny is why the Trump cultists are no longer clamoring for the Epstein files. MAGA thought the Epstein files would provide evidence of Democratic sexual deviance. But low and behold, most of the men in the files are corporate bosses, Trump cabinet members and political appointees, and foreigners. MAGA doesn't want to look in the mirror. That's why Vance brought back the specter of Pizza Gate a few months ago. Pizza gate was a MAGA smear campaign against Hilary Clinton and other Dem politicians. No children were sex-trafficked out of a DC pizza restaurant. However real people were abused for decades by the Epstein predator class who are currently being protected by the President, Vice President and GOP congress. The GOP hypocrisy is mind blowing.🤯
I thought this was a very insightful post. I agree; these MAGA men are atrocious. Especially Andrew Tate, who should still be in prison alongside his brother in Romania
Hopefully, when/if the Dems win the mid-terms, we will begin the much needed march back towards honesty, civility, empathy and respect, FOR ALL!
Sadly though, I'm not holding my breath.
Right now, America's "leaders", led by the Fascist Orange Fucktard, are despicable, evil, cowardly clowns who are eviscerating whatever "good" we once built for one another, and represented to the world.
Truly Sucks... yet "we the people" voted the PIG in, which is certainly not our crown achievement as human beings.
While those elections are important, every day presents opportunity to bring more honesty and civility into the world. Seizing them is how we move closer to a more respectful culture, step by step.
Also, lets face it. With all the primaries and fundraising messages and voter mobilization already underway, the mid terms are now. I know I'll be involved somehow, and I hope you will too.
Have been involved Seth, and won't stop until we win, or I drop. WE NEED to help MOTIVATE ALL the people to participate, as if we don't, just like in '24, that evil filth in the GOP could steal the win, and maintain their majority in Congress. That would, effectively, be the country's death knell! Glad to hear that you're in the fight Seth. Cheers!
Thank you for being on the right side of women. And as you indicated, this is not limited to one party. Nor is it limited politicians. Men need to do a better job of calling out men.
100% this! Where are all the “good” men hiding? Our culture is a f-ing mess! I am 69 yrs old. The republicans hated women getting rights. They hated black people getting rights. And now it all about LGBTQ. When really a majority of white men are happy/content to have white men run things. If they feel differently, SPEAK OUT NOW! Show up at protests. Call your representatives. For some reason, men feel uncomfortable doing these things. Maybe it produces feelings of powerlessness. Welcome to the club!
What you’re describing isn’t dysfunction. It’s design. The founding document that erased women as legal persons produced the military that manufactures damaged men, the courts that protect predators, and the media ecosystem — Fox News on every base, Murdoch’s organization paying out hundreds of millions in harassment settlements — that greets veterans at home and calls dominance patriotism. The screaming of women has become the sound of American leisure. We normalized the hunting and called it entertainment. Platner named his PTSD. Trump has 26 accusers. The ledger has never been applied uniformly because it was never meant to be.
And I envy that design for its blinding brilliance, its parasitic resilience. I wish we could design systems of solidarity with comparable staying power.
Franklin spent decades in direct contact with Haudenosaunee leaders — treaty councils starting in the 1740s, the Albany Congress in 1754 — and openly admired their confederated structure enough to model the colonial union on it. He had direct, repeated exposure to a governance system where clan mothers appointed and removed chiefs and lineage ran through women. He saw it. He used the parts that consolidated power. He left out the part where women held it. That wasn’t an oversight from a man with that much exposure — it was a choice. Everything downstream of that choice is what is described in this piece.
So true, Rare. It is too easy to forget that the work of designing systems of solidarity need not start from scratch provided there is the will to do some historical excavation.
100% Mike, Republicans really hate women, especially a strong women and I'm sure not all Democrats are innocent but it definitely comes more from the right, the same as hateful rhetoric.
Thank you for this. I’ve already seen numerous R criticizing Ds for Platner. Not one of them even speak about Ken Paxton. Just one glaring example. There seems to be a slight bit of justice though. The friend he gave the sweetheart deal to moved to Nebraska, where they ARE requiring him to register asa sex offender.
The problem with all these MAGA men is insecurity in all things “manly” whatever that is. Men treat women like they treat their mothers. Respect is not given anymore, and it’s demanded when not earned. I believe in being an example for those younger than yourself. If we have the “President“ acting like an uncultured maniac as an example what should society expect? Respect starts at home, parents no longer parent their children.
I believe he’s talking about Melania’s son Barron. I’ve seen reports that Barron is tight with the Tates. Could also include Ivana’s two boys. I don’t care enough about the Trumps to look it up. :)
These are not men. They are unregulated, dysfunctional boys. And as a psychotherapist, I can say with certainty that they are self-haters. Men who feel confident in their own masculinity do not hate themselves, so they do not hate women--they prize and protect them. Thank you for shining a light on these very immature and maladjusted males.
And the saddest and least "manly" of all is Stephen Miller who said "Texas Democrats nominated their first transgender Senate candidate," a really pathetic overreach indicative of fear and weakness on Miller's part.
Thank you. People also need to recognize that PTSD and the impact of trauma—something men and women experience—are powerful, unacknowledged influences and can sometimes cause people to act in less than appropriate ways.
Two observations:
1 I hate those MAGA dudes, for starters. Their misogyny & child abuse dials that hate to red hot.
2 Mr Graham Platner and Mr Hunter Biden may prove to be two of the best 'role models' any Party could have. It might be worthwhile to spend time with both of them to ensure that becomes reality.
Thank you.
Please don't list Graham Platner as a role model. No one with that tattoo or who is pro-hamas is a role model.
Seeing the toxic masculinity harming people is burning a hole through your chest. Misogyny is why the Trump cultists are no longer clamoring for the Epstein files. MAGA thought the Epstein files would provide evidence of Democratic sexual deviance. But low and behold, most of the men in the files are corporate bosses, Trump cabinet members and political appointees, and foreigners. MAGA doesn't want to look in the mirror. That's why Vance brought back the specter of Pizza Gate a few months ago. Pizza gate was a MAGA smear campaign against Hilary Clinton and other Dem politicians. No children were sex-trafficked out of a DC pizza restaurant. However real people were abused for decades by the Epstein predator class who are currently being protected by the President, Vice President and GOP congress. The GOP hypocrisy is mind blowing.🤯
Maga has deep centuries old roots in white misogyny and patriarchy based on a philosophy that treated women as property.
Current regime has only made them more lethal and brought their hatred of women to a boiling point.
Stripping away women's rights left and right is leaving us all very vulnerable and in great danger.
I thought this was a very insightful post. I agree; these MAGA men are atrocious. Especially Andrew Tate, who should still be in prison alongside his brother in Romania
Brilliant Mike, and spot on! Thank you.
Hopefully, when/if the Dems win the mid-terms, we will begin the much needed march back towards honesty, civility, empathy and respect, FOR ALL!
Sadly though, I'm not holding my breath.
Right now, America's "leaders", led by the Fascist Orange Fucktard, are despicable, evil, cowardly clowns who are eviscerating whatever "good" we once built for one another, and represented to the world.
Truly Sucks... yet "we the people" voted the PIG in, which is certainly not our crown achievement as human beings.
YUCK!
While those elections are important, every day presents opportunity to bring more honesty and civility into the world. Seizing them is how we move closer to a more respectful culture, step by step.
Also, lets face it. With all the primaries and fundraising messages and voter mobilization already underway, the mid terms are now. I know I'll be involved somehow, and I hope you will too.
Have been involved Seth, and won't stop until we win, or I drop. WE NEED to help MOTIVATE ALL the people to participate, as if we don't, just like in '24, that evil filth in the GOP could steal the win, and maintain their majority in Congress. That would, effectively, be the country's death knell! Glad to hear that you're in the fight Seth. Cheers!
But it may be our downfall as a people and as a country.
Indeed!
Thank you for being on the right side of women. And as you indicated, this is not limited to one party. Nor is it limited politicians. Men need to do a better job of calling out men.
100% this! Where are all the “good” men hiding? Our culture is a f-ing mess! I am 69 yrs old. The republicans hated women getting rights. They hated black people getting rights. And now it all about LGBTQ. When really a majority of white men are happy/content to have white men run things. If they feel differently, SPEAK OUT NOW! Show up at protests. Call your representatives. For some reason, men feel uncomfortable doing these things. Maybe it produces feelings of powerlessness. Welcome to the club!
I know many who do, including my brothers, as did my late father and husband.
What you’re describing isn’t dysfunction. It’s design. The founding document that erased women as legal persons produced the military that manufactures damaged men, the courts that protect predators, and the media ecosystem — Fox News on every base, Murdoch’s organization paying out hundreds of millions in harassment settlements — that greets veterans at home and calls dominance patriotism. The screaming of women has become the sound of American leisure. We normalized the hunting and called it entertainment. Platner named his PTSD. Trump has 26 accusers. The ledger has never been applied uniformly because it was never meant to be.
And I envy that design for its blinding brilliance, its parasitic resilience. I wish we could design systems of solidarity with comparable staying power.
Franklin spent decades in direct contact with Haudenosaunee leaders — treaty councils starting in the 1740s, the Albany Congress in 1754 — and openly admired their confederated structure enough to model the colonial union on it. He had direct, repeated exposure to a governance system where clan mothers appointed and removed chiefs and lineage ran through women. He saw it. He used the parts that consolidated power. He left out the part where women held it. That wasn’t an oversight from a man with that much exposure — it was a choice. Everything downstream of that choice is what is described in this piece.
So true, Rare. It is too easy to forget that the work of designing systems of solidarity need not start from scratch provided there is the will to do some historical excavation.
100% Mike, Republicans really hate women, especially a strong women and I'm sure not all Democrats are innocent but it definitely comes more from the right, the same as hateful rhetoric.
Thank you for this. I’ve already seen numerous R criticizing Ds for Platner. Not one of them even speak about Ken Paxton. Just one glaring example. There seems to be a slight bit of justice though. The friend he gave the sweetheart deal to moved to Nebraska, where they ARE requiring him to register asa sex offender.
The problem with all these MAGA men is insecurity in all things “manly” whatever that is. Men treat women like they treat their mothers. Respect is not given anymore, and it’s demanded when not earned. I believe in being an example for those younger than yourself. If we have the “President“ acting like an uncultured maniac as an example what should society expect? Respect starts at home, parents no longer parent their children.
Thank you, Mike.
Thank you , Mike!
Cm
Absolutely Mike!
You broached it. Please explain. The Trump son?
I believe he’s talking about Melania’s son Barron. I’ve seen reports that Barron is tight with the Tates. Could also include Ivana’s two boys. I don’t care enough about the Trumps to look it up. :)