Right Wing Moral Panic: "The Crisis of Masculinity"

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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UNLOCKED: Adnan Husain and Breht O'Shea from Guerrilla History 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	Music
0:04.0	Music
0:07.0	You remember 10 Van Boone?
0:09.0	No!
0:11.0	The same thing happened in Algiers, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The Prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:21.0	But they put some guerrilla action on them.
0:24.0	Music
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global left and proletarian history,
0:36.0	and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:40.0	I'm your host Adnan, who's saying joined by one of my usual co-hosts, Brett O'Shea, of Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:49.0	How are you doing today, Brett?
0:51.0	I'm doing quite well.
0:53.0	Excellent.
0:55.0	Henry isn't with us today. He'll be back for the next episode, probably very soon.
1:01.0	And we look forward to involving him in our next discussion.
1:06.0	But I'm a director of School of Religion and host also of the MUJLESS podcast.
1:15.0	And today we've got a really interesting topic that
1:21.0	comes up in today's culture and contemporary right. Brett wanted to tell us a little bit more about the issue.
1:28.0	Yeah, one of the issues that if you've been paying attention to politics and the culture war in particular,
1:34.0	how big trope that is going around and has been going around for quite some time on the re-actionary right in different countries.
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