In order to have a productive national debate about gun policy, we need to be willing to talk about the ways in which guns are woven deeply into cultural narratives about American masculinity. From jacksontkatz:
on June 2nd that uncharacteristically discussed some of the reasons why the shooters are almost always male — in a story whose headline and central theme was theMuch more common is the lack of any attempt to analyze gender in commentary about school shootings. This was exemplified starkly in a, entitled “What School Shooters Have in Common,” and written by James Densley and Jillian Peterson, whose work has circulated widely since Uvalde.
Then they buried the most critical data point at the end of the paragraph, in parentheses: , and said nothing further about it. What difference would it make if the discourse on school shootings and mass killings routinely included discussion about the socialization of boys in a violent culture? We can’t have a productive national debate about gun policy if we are not willing to talk about the ways in which guns are woven deeply into cultural narratives about American masculinity. Heavily armed rugged individualism — reinforced by glamorous portrayals in entertainment media — continues to have immense influence over the identities of millions of American men — especially white men.
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