Right Wing Moral Panic: "The Crisis of Masculinity" - Unlocked IB

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this patreon-early access Intelligence Briefing, Adnan and Breht discuss the current moral panic on the political right around issues of masculinity, dropping testosterone levels, and family formation. Together they discuss how the Right obscures the role of under-regulated corporations in poisoning us and the role capitalism plays in destabilizing human life in general, and instead blame scapegoats like life-saving vaccines, innocuous food stuffs like soy, feminism, LGBTQ people, and liberal elites (but never reactionary ones ofc). In addition, they try to think through what masculinity actually is, how it might express itself in healthy ways, what the left can offer young people in general, how reactionary notions of masculinity are rooted in profound fear and insecurity, and how misogynistic figures in the manosphere actually hamstring and poison the minds of young men trying to find a good partner and build a meaningful life.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Ben-Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.2	Hello, and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global left and proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the
0:39.7	present. I'm your host, Adnan Hussein, joined by one of my usual co-hosts, Brett O'Shea of
0:48.1	Revolutionary Left Radio. How are you doing today, Brett? I'm doing quite well, quite well.
0:53.5	Excellent.
0:56.3	Henry isn't with us today.
1:04.3	He'll be back for the next episode probably very soon, and we look forward to involving him in our next discussion.
1:06.1	But I'm a director of the School of Religion and host also of the Mudgellis podcast. And today we've got a really interesting topic that comes up in today's culture and the contemporary right. Brett, why don't you tell us a little bit more about the, about the issue? Yeah, one of the issues that if you've been paying attention to politics
1:31.4	and all, the culture war in particular, a big trope that is going around and has been going
1:37.1	around for quite some time on the reactionary right in different countries. I mean, this is not
1:41.8	just an American thing. This is very much now a global
1:44.4	thing, apparently, which is this idea that masculinity is in crisis, and this takes this sort of
1:51.3	moral panic around masculinity takes many different forms, whether that's Jordan Peterson
1:57.0	crying about what are we going to do without men, Joe Rogan predicting that soon there will be a world so hostile that straight white men can't
2:05.3	walk out of the house.
2:07.2	And Tucker Carlson talking about the need to, you know, tan your balls and get your
2:11.8	testosterone levels up.
2:14.1	But a lot of it comes, it circles around this fear, which is somewhat ambiguous, but starting to become clear in the scientific literature, that there seems to be a drop in overall testosterone.
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