"This dynamic has played out explicitly with media fawning over Tim Walz: sure, they conceded, he’s a white man and he served in the military and he coached football, but he’s a paragon of “positive masculinity.” And as a positively masculine man, Walz and all other non-toxic men know that they have a duty to the women in their lives to vote as these women would want them to vote—like reparations a husband can pay to his wife and daughters for the centuries of patriarchy and, no doubt, resulting intergenerational trauma they have inherited. Walz is an exemplary penitent, forever sorry about his penis and pale skin."
As I put in a Substack note, the one social theoretical view that truly dominates our collective unconscious, our "social imaginary" is still feminism. Race and class are all downstream from the gender identity battle and the "virtues" and "vices" that it produces and propagates. This is endemic in our political world, our entertainment world, and in our churches as well.
Such a thoughtful essay.
This was brilliant Matthew:
"This dynamic has played out explicitly with media fawning over Tim Walz: sure, they conceded, he’s a white man and he served in the military and he coached football, but he’s a paragon of “positive masculinity.” And as a positively masculine man, Walz and all other non-toxic men know that they have a duty to the women in their lives to vote as these women would want them to vote—like reparations a husband can pay to his wife and daughters for the centuries of patriarchy and, no doubt, resulting intergenerational trauma they have inherited. Walz is an exemplary penitent, forever sorry about his penis and pale skin."
As I put in a Substack note, the one social theoretical view that truly dominates our collective unconscious, our "social imaginary" is still feminism. Race and class are all downstream from the gender identity battle and the "virtues" and "vices" that it produces and propagates. This is endemic in our political world, our entertainment world, and in our churches as well.
Thanks!
Excellent, as always. Thank you.
Also, great use of Tillich.