Guns, Republicans and "manliness": We all suffer from the right's mental health crisis

Men who work to limit women's autonomy over their own bodies, or for that matter conservative women who punch down to bolster their fragile status have serious issues to work on and should quit afflicting them on the rest of us.

Amen

One thing I've learned is that if you have to announce something about yourself, and announce it loudly and repeatedly, it's very much not true.

"manliness"

In this context, the definition is being a chronic asshole and getting away with it.

Seems to be a big deal when you start talking guns and mental health, but with all the fixations on "mass shootings", they lose this little stat:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

"In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. That figure includes gun murders and gun suicides, along with three less common types of gun-related deaths tracked by the CDC: those that were accidental, those that involved law enforcement and those whose circumstances could not be determined."

54% of those deaths were suicides. 26,368.

(43% murder, 3% "other", accidents, etc.)

Also in 2021, 38,358 men committed suicide compared to 9,825 women.

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html

3.9:1, if almost 4x more women than men were dying for any reason, it would be a national crisis. "Something would have to be done!"

Mental health for men? Silence.

It's so irritating that left-of-center publications always go all-in on anti-gun sentiment, while believing that a police state is going to save people. News flash: it won't. Cops don't care about you and have no responsibility to do anything to help you, or to prevent violence against you. Cops are often the ones involved in protecting the people on the right that use violence to suppress people on the left.

For fucks sake, we literally saw a full year of violence by police against peaceful BLM protestors that just want to stop extrajudicial police killings; we caw cops turn protests into riots, and then use the riots as their excuse for using more violence.

I reject their authoritarian leanings, in the same way that I reject the authoritarian bullshit from Republicans.

I run a bakery and helped a lady with a cake for her husband. She was constantly asking me if these were masculine enough colors and designs lol. I tricked them with trans pride colors. Worrying about your masculinity is one of the least masculine things you can do.

I know this goes a bit off from the article (I skimmed). But I think a lot of this toxic masculinity comes from decades of media on what a American man should be.

They need to be strong, independent, smart (sometimes), ingenious, a natural leader, angry at the "system", can shoot any gun with perfection, solve most all problems with a gun or a fist fight, never show any type of remorse or trauma from their violent "solutions", muscular, always get the girl, only drink brown liquors or beer, never bend, never negotiate, always win, and can walk away from an explosion without flinching.

This shit has been around since the 1940's and it still in use today. It used to be the Lone Ranger, Superman, batman. Then it was the strong independent cowboy taking on the "savages", The 70's it was Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood taking on the Gangs of the inner cities. The 80's and 90's were Rambo and terminator, the 2000's with Mission Impossible, Jason Borne, John Wick. And James Bond all through out. Just to name a few

Not to take away from the entertainment of these movies and characters but I see lot's of men that take these fictional characters and try to make it their personality. But reality doesn't work that way. They can't go shoot your problems away. Hot women just don't fall leg spread for these guys (which makes them angrier). AND some men don't want to be this unrealistic version of an American man. Which for some reason pisses off those men that do want it....

And also their tendency to unleash face-eating leopards.

Being manly is vital to the right wing.

In my humble opinion all these fellas just seem to be running around like a beheaded chicken in search for the slightest amount self worth. Instead they started yearning for surrogates like wealth, power, status and what not.

The problem with these surrogates is that you cannot ever get enough of it. It'll never fill the gaping hole which is their sense of self.

IMO, the focus should be on being a good person and not on conforming to unrealistic gender stereotypes. One's gender presentation (or lack) is enhanced by universal positive attributes like honesty, confidence, commitment, charity, etc. This is not an original idea, but thought it worth saying.

America, not even once.

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Can we stop posting idiotic Salon.com articles Jesus fucking Christ liberal circle jerking at its finest. The same people that salivate over this nonsense will unironically state that faux news is white supremacists fascist racist literally Hitler propaganda (it's just right wing propaganda chuds).

Ugh. In these comments I see we've evolved from "men should man up and stop whining" to "men should stop manning up and theoretically start whining, but in practice still stop whining actually."

It's not their attitudes causing massive increases in suicides and deaths of despair, you fools. It's material conditions. And it's not caused by the right wing trolls who might try to take advantage. shoeonhead got it right imo

Edit:

I just read the article and it's one of the stupidest and most beligerently ideological things I've ever read.

Leftists are more likely to be mentally ill tho

Why is both Reddit and lemmy politics both just filled with leftist propaganda?

Real question, it's impossible to see both content as in these places it's just "trump bad, Biden god" well sorry, both are horrible people I want to see both sides.

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