Jaime
Grant, executive director of PFLAG National, an LGBTQ family and ally
organization:
"Many
'normative' messages men learn as they are growing up about stuffing their
feelings, policing other men's gender and sexuality, asserting 'dominance' from
the boardroom to the bedroom, also show up in their lives as fathers."
I came
across this article on Twitter—and not shockingly, I wasn’t surprised. The fear
embedded in men of being gay or being associated with a gay man is so
paralyzing that it manifests itself in acts of violence. This particular one is
a mix of gun violence and parental abuse.
This
article also took me back to a module we had at the beginning of the semester—where
I wrote in a discussion thread that it’s funny that masculinity is seen as a
structurally and concretely defined concept, but is just essentially whatever
femininity is not at the time—and I suppose it’s feminine to be romantically
attracted to men. Why are men so afraid to indulge in anything that even
slightly strays away from the hegemonic characteristics of dominance and
aggression, and seems closer to femininity?
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