In order to see racial violence as about both race and masculinity, we must recognize that in systems of privilege that are not patriarchy, men tend not to recognize our complicity in those systems but women do. In addition “Gender” too often means women and trans victims 1/x.
When we focus on male perpetrators and that men are as gendered as women and NB people, things not usually associated with gender can be found to be gendered. There is a reason why antiracism work focuses on white women instead of white men. 2/x
This is also a reason why the study of toxic masculinity is now expanding to how men uphold racism, and why in 2021, suggestions to tackle racism include tackling male culture and TM. In England, after racially motivated attacks against black English players after their Euros 3/x
loss, much of the blame was focused on men, not white people, even though the online vitriol was directed against the MOC England national team players and was racist, not sexist in nature. The Rittenhouse, McMichael, and Charlottesville trials are about gender AND race, but 4/x
since the victims weren’t facing misogyny during those attacks, the gender aspect is overlooked by most. These trials are as much about male entitlement as any #MeToo trial or the Atlanta Spa Shootings. “Boys Will Be Held Accountable” applies as much as it would for DV & SA. 5/x
Pivoting to gender and recognizing that men and women as groups also have a stake in WS and racial violence allows for more tools to be used in the antiracism toolbox. #NotAllMen #RittenhouseTrial #AhmaudArbery #Charlottesville #WhiteSupremacy 6/x
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