Richard Jeffrey Newman's Miscellany

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What the Uvalde shooter did was monstrous. Calling him a monster, however, conveniently elides the fact that nothing he did is at odds with the manhood values we promulgate and celebrate in this country, including the garden-variety misogyny he allegedly expressed at work. And if you say that killing children (or innocent people) is not what manhood is about, or some such thing, all you’re doing really is arguing that his manhood was “misdirected.” You’re not questioning the values that connect manhood to guns and violence and misogyny.