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When we look at what the factors are that make life so miserable for young gays and lesbians, it’s tempting for progressives to point the finger at religious traditions that are hostile to sexual pluralism. But the young men in American high schools who are beating up other boys whom they suspect of being gay are rarely doing so in order to comply with a misunderstood dictate from the Torah or the Pauline epistles. It’s not faith that drives the hate as much as it is an overwhelming desire to establish masculine bona fides. “I torment faggots, therefore I can’t be one; I beat up queers, therefore I’m a man.” That toxic equation may be aided and abetted by conservative religion, but it isn’t rooted in it. Rather, the hateful behavior is rooted in the rigid rules of American masculinity, a masculinity predicated on a contempt for and a paranoia about even the slightest whiff of femininity among the be-penised.
Homosociality and homophobia: why the distorted rules of “manhood” are the real problem at Hugo Schwyzer (via sexisnottheenemy)
(Reblogged from anarchofeminist)
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‎In fairness, we’ve been building ‘ground zeros’ near Iraqi mosques since March 2003.
http://twitter.com/jasonmustian/status/21337496786

Sarah Palin you are a moron, I hope Facebook deletes you…

femasculine:

So I’m thinking all our reports about Sarah Palins note ‘An Intolerable Mistake on Hallowed Ground’ being a racist hate speech worked because she reposted it about five hours ago saying the original ‘was somehow unintentionally deleted by mistake or technical glitch.’

I reported it again, and it would be cool if everybody else did too. 

The comments are what really sicken me. Comparing a mosque to a Hitler shrine at Auschwitz (or “Auswitz,” as this person seems to think it is spelled)? The very next commentator even had the audacity to suggest that we’re allowing Muslims to “conquer” the very country that fosters such an Islamophobic environment. I’m sick of the majority complaining that the minority they routinely marginalize and oppress is taking over the world. I just want to tell these people to get over their own privilege.

(Reblogged from femasculine)
dionnadecay: knife-party: wetepentz: same-old-chic: mikerouze: sirmitchell: thedailywhat: Sign Of The Times of the Day: I have been triumphant in my critical observation of that which you are attempting to accomplish in your general area. [reddit.]

dionnadecay:

knife-party:

wetepentz:

same-old-chic:

mikerouze:

sirmitchell:

thedailywhat:

Sign Of The Times of the Day: I have been triumphant in my critical observation of that which you are attempting to accomplish in your general area.

[reddit.]