It's been a year since the Uvalde shooting. 'What difference would it make if the discourse on mass killings routinely included discussion about the socialization of boys in a violent culture?'
on June 2 that uncharacteristically discussed some of the reasons why the shooters are almost always male—in a story whose headline and central theme was theMuch more common is the lack of any attempt to analyze gender in commentary about shootings. This was exemplified starkly in a, “What School Shooters Have in Common,” written by James Densley and Jillian Peterson, whose work has circulated widely since the Uvalde massacre that left 21 dead.
What if commentators spoke thoughtfully about topics like trauma and shame, and the often-limited ways in which boys and young men are taught to deal with their own victimization—at home or in school peer cultures—as well as how to handle difficult emotions such as disappointment, grief, loss and self-loathing? At the very least, such a focus would go a long way toward helping us understand why these tragic events continue to occur.
In fact, a vigorous debate about masculinity and shootings would move beyond a fixation on the psychology of young men who commit these horrible crimes and turn a gendered lens on another part of the problem: the men whose very identity resides in seeing themselves as the “good man with a gun,” who can protect others from the “bad man with a gun.”
One of those root causes is something gender violence perpetrators and mass shooters often have in common: a feeling of aggrieved entitlement, accompanied by a fear of being seen as soft, weak, feminine or “emasculated.” Thus part of the answer lies in creating more egalitarian, adaptive and realistic definitions of “manhood,” especially definitions that do not valorize violence as a means of achieving something of value.
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