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edit: Isn't worth the trouble.

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That is what you think Over here MEN are the oppressed ones NOT WOMEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yM6TDWoogY

Aussie Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK-vEulaOIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o84Rdfb1q0A

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Here are some scary facts your "teacher" won't tell you at "school"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKR2nmYAmmM

I love how people have figured out a way to blame feminists and feminism for mass shootings and gun culture.

I now can't wait to see how people figure out a way to blame feminists and feminism for EA, Konami, day one DLC, season passes, microtransactions, and loot boxes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/opinion/boys-violence-shootings-guns.html

Yes, toxic masculinity and/or the concept of masculinity in the US, together with its fragility, is definitely a factor. The article above makes a good case for that, even hits on some points that right wingers would agree with. As with most of these situations, feminism can offer answers. If you're searching for answers, that is.


On topic: Nothing good will come from scapegoating video games. And that is literally all that's happening right now. This is a distraction. We all have video games. But the US is the only country in which these shootings happen on a near daily basis. The answer to the question "What's different in the US" is, in my opinion, clear as the morning sky after a thunderstorm, but apparently the US govt. would rather look any other way.

Sure as hell we'll have to talk about the interestingly excessive level of graphic violence in the AAA video game industry. But not under these abject, false pretenses.

Wait for March 24th.

His opinion doesn't make a good case for anything. He believes since the shooters are boys toxic or outdated masculinity is a cause. He doesn't even mention that those involved in the mass shootings he cited have psychological problems that were either known beforehand or, as sadly is the usual case, afterwards.

I would think psychological problems would be the root cause of mass shootings rather than the shadow of masculinity.

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I would think that living by a regressive and outdated concept of masculinity – one that makes you pop at a moment's notice just like that guy up there – qualifies as a doozy of a "psychological problem" in its own right, and pinpointing the specific nature of that affliction helps us narrow down the actual root cause of these shootings. After all, these men (and it's always men) are living utterly senseless lives by an entirely disfunctional and screwed code of honor; that's a hell of a reason to pop, wouldn't you agree?

Yet while we're still generalizing, I honestly don't see how people can buy and own functional weapons of mass killing and not have a horrifying truckload of psychological problems already.

Projecting your belief that the concept of masculinity is a "doozy of a 'psychological prblem'" doesn't make it one. Again, you overlook the known psychological issues of the shooters. For example, suffering from a combination of severe anxiety, mutism, and major depressive order (as the Virginia Tech shooter had) can lead someone to "pop", not masculinity.

People collect guns because they are interested them in, just as people collect cars, stamps, insects, and video games. Cars and other vehicles can be used as a weapon of mass killing, as has been demonstrated in Europe. Do car collectors have a "horrifying truckload of psychological problems"?

Matthew Hopkins did nothing wrong.