To combat ANY violence, not just male VAWG, masculinity must be reconstructed. The WHO defines gender as “the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed.” For us, dominance and being the protector are two of those socially constructed traits. 1/x
While this is most salient when dealing with men’s violence against women and trans people, it’s as salient when dealing with male violence against racially and religious marginalized groups, including other men within those groups. Protection can easily include protection 2/x
From “savages and brutes” which are ways Native American and BM have been portrayed in America. Protection and dominance is the justification for bloated police budgets & police brutality. It is also justification for vigilantes & overseas wars. Since dominance and protection 3/x
Is a socially constructed trait of masculinity and used to justify violent racism in addition to cisheteropatriarchal privileges, gender plays an important role in racial, xenophobic, and religious violence even when the targets are NOT women. 4/x
Gina Martin, a British sexual assault campaigner who led the charge to successfully criminalize upskirting in 🇬🇧 said, “You see, we aren’t dealing with an epidemic of violence due to how we develop traditional femininity but because of how we develop traditional masculinity.” 5/x
She said this regarding men’s sexual assault after the Sarah Everard murder and it’s aftermath. But traditional masculine roles of protector & male privilege to dominate lie behind racist, xenophobic, & sectarian attacks as well. It’s simply hidden if women aren’t attacked. 6/x
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