I don’t have any amazing hot takes on the fact that the man responsible for yesterday’s tragedy in Toronto is allegedly a self-identified incel Elliot Rodger superfan. I’m mostly just sad and tired.
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Mental illness is a complete cop-out when it comes to gender-based violence. Do some people who engage in gender-based violence experience mental illness? Sure. But if that was the root cause then we wouldn’t see these acts being committed almost exclusively by men.
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Until we look at gender-based violence through the lens of toxic masculinity, we’re not going to get anywhere. Blaming it on “mental illness” completely elides over the fact that we live in a misogynistic culture that glorifies a whole lot of dangerous attitudes toward women.
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And by the way, toxic masculinity /= masculinity. I dearly hope that one thing that comes out of these discussions the chance to think up ways to help men have a healthy relationship with masculinity.
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I know that a lot of young men struggle with their relationship to masculinity, and, in the absence of good role models for healthy masculinity, turn to things like the incel movement to explain the loneliness and disconnect they feel
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I see a lot of men expressing shock and dismay over the misogynistic radicalization of young men through incel communities. A lot of men are asking what they can do. Here’s the main thing men can do: model healthy masculinity to each other.
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Incels r terrorist hate grp advocating & practicing hatred, social exclusion, objectification, violence, etc.. towards women
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Neither is Autism a mental illness.
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entitlement. Looking at what these losers write it's all wahhh, girls don't like me, so instead of looking at myself, i will be a terrorist
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Depression, aspergers, and antisocial personality disorder are tho
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Threats of domestic violence saw men committed to the asylum in 1905. As did loneliness and melancholia. It’s interesting how those ideas and the behaviour they drive have become more socially acceptable.
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Incel type tragic characters can be found at least back to the Helenistic Greeks. Whatever it is we do to boys to train toxic masculinity into them (well us, because I've got my share), we're well practiced at it and we've recognized it's existence on some level for a long time.
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