LC: Gender Graham Crakcup (opens in new tab)

Katherine Alejandra Cross, Read it all, it's brilliant, but some select quotes to convince you: Phrased this way, perhaps you see what I mean when I say it’s all Gender, all the way down. ... If hegemonic masculinity is defined by anything, it is anxiety. From that quivering, flabby mass radiates all the other things we’re likelier to associate with it—violence, status games, domination, overt misogyny. For such men, life is a wilderness of insecurities. Men comparing themselves to other men,...