I did wonder where this was best placed. I can delete and move if you wish .. unless Fist is the only one that can, so be it.
Though in my defence, it's a study of human behaviour and human psyche .. yes with a focus on masculinity... and as such raises some very interesting observations. The only "political aspect, is the its alleged voting relationship to the subject of interest .. which is the correlation of the human psyche, personality traits, and identified prevalences ... and a postulating of what that might mean in and of itself, and what that indicates about a class of people that have those similar variables in common.
Z, I noted in the introduction that it doesnt smack of imperical evidence .. but thought it very interesting as an article. But this is not a stand alone perspective, there is quite a body of opinion and research on this very common subject matter postulation.
And here are a few links to others...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/1 ... 3117749380
This is simply the abstract, but makes some rather interesting observations that add weight to the line of though explored by the above mentioned study.
Given that the president is thought to be the national representative, presidential campaigns often reflect the efforts to define a national identity and collective values. Political humor provides a unique lens through which to explore how identity figures into national politics given that the critique of an intended target is often made through popular cultural scripts that often inadvertently reify the very power structures they seek to subvert.
In conducting an analysis of 240 tweets, memes, and political cartoons from the 2016 U.S. presidential election targeting the two frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, we see how popular political humor often reaffirmed heteronormative assumptions of gender, sexuality, and race and equated scripts of hegemonic masculinity with presidential ability
In doing so, these discourses reified a patriarchal power structure.
The actual report is here
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10 ... 3117749380
Which I think you V will find very interesting.
What rape culture says about masculinity
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/theconv ... nity-85513
This article critiques the use of terms like "toxic masculinity" giving arguably a more balanced perspective. I think it bears noting that it is not a term intended to tar all men with this particular toxicity .. but its the culture and socialisation of male toxicity, and the harm toxic expectations have on men's own health as well as the health and wellbeing of those around them. There is arguably also an equivalent "toxic femininity" .. but you can read here if interested.
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-01- ... re/8207704
That article is a feminist perspective.. some of you may wish to disregard it without a glance, on that basis but I see again, common themes here. Its the psychology of the alleged weak masculinity concept and the toxic masculinity concept that is interesting, is it not?
Here's an article about a 2017 study along similar lines .. this is a brilliant overview and identifies 5 key traits .. I find this one compelling.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.psy ... aits%3famp
This article analyzes the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump, arguing that the rhetorical form of his appeals constitutes demagoguery defined by a reliance on victimized, White, toxic masculinity. Extending work on demagoguery, which has emphasized its characteristic lionization of certainty and demands for mastery, I suggest that Trump's capacity to conclude his audience as at risk and vulnerable figures a condition inherent to democratic politics-undecidability-as a threat to personhood. Trump's construction of a precarious and socially segregated "America" constitutes an image of masculinist totality that works on the basis of the incompleteness suffusing politics while undermining the possibilities for a feminist political ethics characterized by mutual vulnerability.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.the ... -white-men
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.the ... le/558674/
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.the ... le/558674/
I can appreciate that as a Trump supporter, this may be a sensitive issue, and you couldnt be faulted for feeling this information confrontational. If its possible try not to take the data personally.. every reasonable human knows, its irrational to tar all humans with the one brush. I said as much in the Tank recently, when someone posed a very similar scenario to me.
Remembering its not an attack of Trump supporters as much as an exploration of the human psyche, which is a key distinction.
