I speak as someone who went through a school shooting 42 years ago at Kent State.
We want to ignore
the Freudian insight that MALES are unconsciously
the Freudian insight that MALES are unconsciously
angry, especially angry at women, who have magical powers of
creating another
human being, leaving MALES to do society's nasty task of
destroying them in war.
We want to ignore
the fact that religion uses MALE gods to
subordinate* others, either as sinners or as un-worthies, and that
the
unconscious lesson such deities teach young MALES is that manhood
means using power to subordinate the less powerful.
We want to ignore
the fact that our culture valorizes MALES
who use physical dexterity to subordinate others---not verbal
dexterity----
whether on fields of battle or on fields of sport.
We fuel
our culture with 300 MILLION hand guns, and valorize
their use in cinema and on television.
And then we wonder
why gunMEN, not gunwomen, create mass
murders in our world, from Denmark
to Sandy Hook .
We have created
a lethal witches brew and we offer it to our MALES
daily.
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