Thread by @RemakingManhood

THREAD: The Atlanta shooter is one more example of the direct correlation between white supremacists and male supremacists. These populations feed into and recruit each other's members. You can not be one without being the other.
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In our dominance-based man box culture of masculinity, we teach boys a narrow and limited set of rules for being a man. The primary message man box culture teaches boys is “women are less.” We do this by policing boys’ and men’s masculinity via the denigration of the feminine. /2

The bullying and policing of boys and men begins shortly after infancy and goes on continually. "What are you, a girl? What are you, a sissy?" This denigration of the feminine takes place not weekly or daily, but hourly, designed to continually police us back into the box. /3

Eventually, boys under constant bullying and pressure to live up to man box culture’s expectations, engage in public harassment and denigration of women as a shortcut to masculine confirmation. Trash talking women, feminists, men who support women, is how we are taught to bond /4

Once you train boys to think their gender makes them better than girls, it’s not much of a reach to convince them they’re better than others based on race, religion, immigration status, and so on. It’s why masculinity extremists and white supremacists are the same population. /5

Show me the degree to which a man thinks he is better than women and you will have shown me the degree to which he is racist.

One predicts the other. Bank on it. /6

Our dominance-based man box culture of masculinity teaches boys that girls and women are less while bullying and shaming boys out of authentic connection and community. Our sons end up emotionally isolated, disaffected, angry, and ripe for recruitment into white nationalism. /7

All of our society’s problems, racism, anti LGBTQ violence, bigotry, are born out of our generations old dominance-based culture of masculinity. Until we replace it with a culture of masculine connection we will continue to create broken men who do themselves and others harm /8

To see how clearly male supremacist and white supremacist recruitment overlaps see this article by the @splcenter
splcenter.org/fighting-hate/… /9

The correlation between white supremacists and male supremacists clearly highlights the common cause between gender rights activists and BIPOC rights activists. We all face the same enemy. Racism and sexism is a single monolithic threat. /10