Reports of a "mass casualty" situation @ nightclub in Orlando shooting

[filthyjiujitsu]

If all emasculated men vote for Trump, it's a done deal.

 

[filthyjiujitsu]

I mean it's psychology. Men don't like losing power to other religions, other races and most definitely not women. This is why most Trump supporters are white, old, uneducated men. Of course it's not that simple but this pattern of behavior in men has been around since the inception.


If I grew up in a society that told me I was superior for centuries and things changed, I'd be mad too.

It's always sobering to see that there are groups of people living in 2016, whom haven't evolved much.

 

[kingkoopa]

 
 The bottom line is science and statistics show that violence is a symptom of male insecurity. You get rejected by the secretary at work you go home and beat your wife.

But you and the author of that article act as if there's something to be done about it?

You act as if being a man is at fault.

Yes some men are punks.

 

[EddieDoyers]

As much as I hate Trump, the author is making assumptions that this is the only reason why Trump is popular. Truth is he's probably good for my tax bracket, and caters to the white race in general. The emasculated white males are just the most visible supporters, but doesn't fit the whole pie of his popularity. I saw on the news about one of the rallies that happened in So Cal was actually many angry white males and females who just feel their race is being oppressed for some reason. Hell I know minorities that like trump because they think he's gonna bring America back to "good ol days" which I don't know what that really means.

 

[EddieDoyers]

I don't think ninjahood is "insecure"
He's just ignorant to complex problems and gives stereotypical solutions that don't really solve it.
If anything the major supporters are ignorant or heavily religious folks.
I will be brutally honest, I seen emasculated males vote for Hilary more than Trump. Simply because the Clinton campaign doesn't appeal to the "alphas"

 

[SC kid]

Interesting.

 

[tay1]

Address it because I don't see it.

If you feel some sort of way like your not man enough thats on you.

That's not energy most men put off.

Thats a insecurity you need to deal with.

Also considered feminine IMO.

So blame feminism.

The high majority of violent crime is committed by males . A US study was conducted on crime and sex. 90% of homicides were by males during a two decade span. Again I didn't say his masculinity was the cause, but is a broader issue at hand that needs more studying imo

 

[heliumclinton]

Rampant toxic masculinity? I ain't buying it Lion. Always a crunchy chick writing this bs

Whens the last time a woman committed a mass murder?

 

[getback]

Whens the last time a woman committed a mass murder?

Like 6 months ago.

 

[heliumclinton]

View media item 2067724

 

[jewseejay]

Whens the last time a woman committed a mass murder?

San bernadino

 

[superblytrife]

FOH with the religion ******** too. Let's not kick a community of marginalized citizens who are already down.

That's why I'm not singling out muslims, but religion had a lot to do with it. Religion is part of the reason why this guy was tormented about being himself.



Son was probably in the Mosque like....

That clip will never not be funny.

 

[AEA18]

Are Ponzi schemes a masculinity issue? Car theft? Drug trafficking? I think men just happen to commit these kinds of crimes more than women

A firearm is a masculine tool though. Using a firearm to display the amount of gratuitous violence one can perform is a masculine act(from their perspective). Which is why the shooter fits the awkward outcast stereotype more often than not.

Officer Michaels (Seth Rogen) from Superbad said it best.

"It's like having two c_... if one of your c_ could kill someone!"

 

[macbk]

A survivor is speaking out (Norman) on Good Morning America right now. He was shot in a bathroom stall a few times.

He said Mateen stood over the stall they were crowded in and started firing, and laughing :x .

 

[rillo561]

So this guy used a gay app to chat with other guys? Something tells me self hate is involved here.

 

[AZwildcats]

Rampant toxic masculinity? I ain't buying it Lion. Always a crunchy chick writing this bs

Whens the last time a woman committed a mass murder?

Didn't that cat in San Bernardino bring his wife along?

 

[SC kid]

 

[ninjahood]

With his near-Neanderthal looks, albeit one with hair that is beyond the range of human evolution, Trump provides a perfect shield to protect men against their current existential fears.

gee..that salon article was soooo not pushing their political bias on that piece

Trump is defying da odds in this election because their using him as a vehicle to shake up da status quo of da political establishment, hence y he's targeted Republicans and Democrats with da same vigor.

Didn't that cat in San Bernardino bring his wife along?

if you followed that story you'd know da women he married is da one that radicalized him, she was born in Saudi Arabia following that extremist sect of islam.

 

[x-alt]

MONDAY, JUN 13, 2016 12:16 PM EDT


[h1]Overcompensation Nation: It’s time to admit that toxic masculinity drives gun violence [/h1]

[h2]Our national attachment to dominance models of manhood is a major reason why we have so much violence [/h2]

AMANDA MARCOTTE

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TOPICS: DONALD TRUMP
, GUN CONTROL
, OMAR MATEEN
, ORLANDO SHOOTING
, PULSE SHOOTING
, TOXIC MASCULINITY
, MEDIA NEWS
, NEWS
, POLITICS NEWS






Omar Mateen  (Credit: AP/Balkis Press)





In the wake of the horrific shooting in Orlando that left 50 dead, a political struggle is forming on whether to define this act as an anti-gay crime or an act of radical Islamic terrorism.





The answer, it’s quickly starting to seem, is both of these, and more. A picture is quickly starting to form of who Omar Mateen, the shooter, was. His ex-wife describes a man who was controlling and abusive
. A colleague says he
 was always using racial and sexual slurs and “talked about killing people all the time.” Both his ex-wife and his father describe him as homophobic, with his father saying he spun into a rage at the sight of two men kissing. He was clearly fond of guns, having not one, but two concealed carry licenses
. He worked at a security firm, a career that can be attractive to men with dominance and control issues. He was investigated by the FBI in 2013 for making threats to a coworker.



There is a common theme here: Toxic masculinity.



Every time feminists talk about toxic masculinity, there is a chorus of whiny dudes who will immediately assume — or pretend to assume — that feminists are condemning all
 masculinity, even though the modifier “toxic” inherently suggests that there are forms of masculinity that are not toxic.



So, to be excruciatingly clear, toxic masculinity is a specific model of manhood, geared towards dominance and control. It’s a manhood that views women and LGBT people as inferior, sees sex as an act not of affection but domination, and which valorizes violence as the way to prove one’s self to the world.



For obvious political reasons, conservatives are hustling as fast as they can to make this about “radical Islam,”  which is to say they are trying to imply that there’s something inherent to Islam and not Christianity that causes such violence. This, of course, is hoary nonsense, as there is a long and ignoble history of Christian-identified men, caught up in the cult of toxic masculinity, sowing discord and causing violence in our country: The gun-toting militiamen that caused a showdown in Oregon, the self-appointed border patrol called the Minutemen that recently made news again
 as their founder was convicted of child molestation, men who attack abortion clinics and providers.



Toxic masculinity aspires to toughness but is, in fact, an ideology of living in fear: The fear of ever seeming soft, tender, weak, or somehow less than manly. This insecurity is perhaps the most stalwart defining feature of toxic masculinity.



The examples are endless: Donald Trump flipping out when someone teases him about his small fingers. (Or about anything, really.) The ludicrously long and shaggy beards on “Duck Dynasty,” meant to stave off any association with the dreaded feminine with a thicket of hair. The emergence of the term “****servative
,” flung around by hardline right wingers to suggest that insufficient racism is somwho emasculating. Conservatives absolutely melting down
 about an Obamacare ad that suggested that, gasp, sometimes men wear pajamas
.



(This ad traumatized them so much that many conservative pundits are still freaking out, years after the fact
, that the Obama administration dared suggest the emasculating fabric of flannel pajamas, ever touched the skin of the American male. Indeed, it’s probably emasculating to suggest men have skin at all, since “skin” is such a ladified concept in our culture, what with the moisturizers and stuff.)



If toxic masculinity was just about men posturing around each other in a comical fashion, that would be one thing, but this persistent pressure to constantly be proving manhood and warding off anything considered feminine or emasculating is the main reason why we have so many damn shootings in the United States. Whether it’s Islamic terrorism or Columbine-style shootings or, as is the case with some of the most common but least covered mass shootings, an act of domestic violence
 by a man who would rather kill his family than lose control, the common theme is this toxic masculinity, a desire on the part of the shooter to show off how much power and control he has, to take male dominance to the level of exerting control over life and death itself.

Toxic feminists lol

 

[blastercombo]

That article

Once again, it's ok to attack a target group as long as it's PC to do so.

 

[SC kid]

i wonder what isis thinks of him being gay.

 

[x-alt]

Too early to call lol

 

[Magic33]

So ISIS supports a closeted gay man attacking openly gay people?
This story is going to levels I have never seen before.

This story is all over the place.

 

[rillo561]

They probably retracting their support for this guy now

 

[4318michaeljohnson4318]

It's actually going where it should go, a discussion on this guys mental health.