This is the part people miss: it’s not “traditional values,” it’s a status-defense ideology that needs an enemy to stay coherent. Once masculinity becomes a political identity, cruelty gets rebranded as “protection,” and everyone’s life gets smaller under it.
This is the part people miss: it’s not “traditional values,” it’s a status-defense ideology that needs an enemy to stay coherent. Once masculinity becomes a political identity, cruelty gets rebranded as “protection,” and everyone’s life gets smaller under it.