You fundamentally cannot run a society based on slavery without becoming a society of paranoia and violence
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Which is why the South mocked the North for being "soft", for men going around unarmed, for not violently responding to challenges to honor
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When your society is based on a fundamentally violent relationship you need violence to be always present on a hair trigger
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You need enslaved people to be constantly cringing in fear of sudden violent death, from anyone, if they take one step out of line
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This is the ugly history of the NRA's smug slogan "An armed society is a polite society"
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Toxic masculinity has a much broader history than the Old South but it's worth looking at how they elevated it to a basic societal virtue
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A highly stratified society where it was extremely important for a man to know where he stood on the ladder
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And to strike out immediately and unforgivingly if his status is ever challenged by an inferior
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They fancied themselves the inheritors of the honor culture of feudal Europe
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A culture that, under the pageantry, was also marked by strict hierarchy and the constant threat of violence
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Where if someone who's Less Than you steps to you you MUST immediately fuck him up or your manhood is revoked
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Because if everyone doesn't enforce strict hierarchy all the time it all falls apart
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There's a history to that mindset and a social function it serves beyond immediate dick stroking ego
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