(for starters) Linda Purrington, Title IX Advocates <lpurring@earthlink.net>
TIGHE@APS.EDU wrote:
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> Robert McIntosh wrote:
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> > I agree with the premise that boys are being negatively socialized in
> > many ways. What has struck me about the school shooting incidents is
> > the sense of entitlement that males (and particularly white males) are
> > given in our culture. You referred to it as a lack of empathy, but I
> > think that seeing it as an expression of feelings of entitlement give it
> > a different twist.
>
> The concept of "sense of entitlement" I see as similar to Linda
> Purrington's concet of "property", and both are important in
> understanding not only the Arkansas shootings, but other forms
> of male violence against women.
>
> There are also other aspects of male socialization at work here.
> One is the male tendency to externalize problems--if a man is
> having a problem, he tends to blame other people, not himself.
> This combines disastrously with a third male tendency which has
> been reinforced by our entertainment media and by increased easy
> access to powerful weapons, and that is the tendency to react
> violently to perceived mistreatment--boys are actually encouraged
> to fight in response to problems with others.
>
> All three can cause males to react violently to perceived threats,
> which includes the "threat" implied in loss of traditional male
> privileges, not only the loss of their "property".
>
> In response to the question "What about the boys?",
> one of the answers should be that boys should get their own
> special training in not being so macho, and not investing so
> much of their ego in male role playing and dominance (this would
> apply also to the parents of boys who ask that question because
> their lives are tied up in their son's progress and privileges).
>
> -- Bob
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