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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jul 2021

      1. In 2001 National Review did a cover story on "Rumsfeld the Stud." The following year People magazine included Rumsfeld in their list of "sexiest men" alive. In 2003 Midge Decter published a fawning Rumsfeld biography that opens with a story about a friend with a Rummy pin-up.pic.twitter.com/OHMI4JI13N

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jul 2021

      2. The Rummy-As-Sex-Symbol moment, a meme that flourished not just in the right-wing media but also the mainstream press from 2001-2004, has been dropped down the memory hole, a collective embarrassment no one wants to talk about. What was going on?

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jul 2021

      3. Partly, it's a matter of how in a time of crisis the media (again, extending beyond the right) likes to find a Churchillian hero who embodies collective toughness, competence, resilience. We saw this recently in cults of Fauci & Cuomo (or earlier of Mueller).

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jul 2021

      4. But Susan Faludi, in her excellent book The Terror Dream (in someways a sequel to her more famous Backlash & equally important) documented how 9/11 led to a resurgence of gender norming. Her book didn't get the attention it deserved at the time but it's persuasive.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jul 2021

          5. Some thoughts on the strange moment when there was mass thirst for Donald Rumsfeld.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-forgotten-history-of-rumsfeld?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

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        1. Jonathan Sadowsky‏ @JonathanSadowsk 3 Jul 2021
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          Terror Dream is really good. I’ve used it in classes.

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        1. Milt Ruthven‏ @MiltonRuthven 3 Jul 2021
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          There were signs in the late 90s when gender nonconforming alternative rock gave way to the segregation of boy bands & pop starlets. In 2000 the Disney Princess franchise began. But above all it was 9/11. Patriarchal violence (by al-Qaeda) breeds more patriarchy (post 9/11 USA).

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        1. Lynn Coady‏ @Lynn_Coady 3 Jul 2021
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          Agreed! I loved that book and found it so persuasive.

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        1. Lucy Steigerwald‏ @LucyStag 6 Jul 2021
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          I just finished Terror Dream after first learning about it from your tweet. So good/unsettling.

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