"the guise of “populist” concern about the lives and struggles of average (white) Americans."
Please stop pretending that Trump won because half our country is racist and sexist. Trump increased votes for Republicans from every racial demographic, including black Americans. Trump didn't win because he's a shining star. He won because Democrats' policies are terrible, from the border to DEI to gender ideology. Even women refused to vote for Democrats last November.
You want to talk about sexism? How about Joe Biden's executive order that declared that sex actually means gender identity. Therefore men legally can become women simply by saying they are. Hence, Democrats put male convicted rapists into female prisons. Guess what they did there. Yep. They raped more women. Go Dems!
When Biden's EO that destroyed female sex-based rights was taken down in the courts, Democrats simply used the Department of Education to reverse Title IX's guarantee of equality to females by again declaring that sex actually means gender identity too. Any boy or man who wants to enter female sports can do so simply by declaring he's a girl or woman or even non-binary. Any schools that protect female sports loses academic funding. Go Dems. Take away money for reading teachers if a school prevents an 18 year old HS senior from getting in the shower with 9th grade girls. Since Aug 2024, every male student had the legal right to use the female shower in US high schools and colleges. Luckily, most men and boys are ethical and honorable and chose not to make women and girls feel uncomfortable by forcing their way into female private spaces. Now, thanks to Trump, they can no longer do that. Except in blue states, of course.
Sure, orange man bad. But Trump's executive order on sex and gender ended Biden's reversal of Title IX. The brilliantly worded EO legally reestablishes girls and women's sex-based rights. You claim Trump is undoing feminist gains. Nope, Democrats did that. And for the record, Democrats will never give a federal right to abortion. We know that because we've given them a trifecta three times in the past 50 years and they somehow neglected to establish that right. They can't give it to us because we might stop voting for them or at the very least tell them to quit cooperating with Republicans In perpetual wars for profit. Republicans will never take it away at the federal level because they also need to scare their rooms by saying blue states are baby killers. It's a duopoly but now 20 million Democrats have refused to vote for Democrats.
You also claim Trump has rolled back LGBTQ rights. You must have forgotten that the first letter is L for Lesbian. Trump's sex and gender EO reinstates lesbian rights because lesbians are women. Unlike the men who call themselves women who have been creeping in us in showers in blue states. Thanks to Democrats' inane promotion of gender ideology, lesbians have been getting kicked off social dating apps for not wanting to have sex with heterosexual men who call themselves women and therefore think they've somehow magically transformed into lesbians. Even lesbians who are polite and respectful get called bigots for not wanting to suck a male transgenders female d!ck.
The alphabet groups more properly should be called lgbTQIAAA2SMAP+ because thanks to Democrats' refusal to acknowledge the reality of sex, lesbians, gay men and bisexuals are now persona non grata in the alphabet soup. Gay men sa also get called bigots for not wanting to have sex with hairy faced women who chopped off their breasts. Hint: they're not actually men, as any gay man could tell you. And if you want to know if a so-called trans woman is actually a woman, ask a lesbian. We're not attracted to fake boobs on a man's chest.
Same-sex attraction is not bigotry. So do me a favor and the next time you decide to talk about women's rights or lesbian rights, keep our L name out of your mouth. If you're worried about trans folk, just remember that the rights they want are to oppress people of the opposite sex by pretending to be them.
I don't pretend that "Trump won because half our country is racist and sexist." That is a caricature of a mainstream liberal position and not something I believe or have ever said. Both parties have issues, to be sure. But I will continue to work to push the Dem Party to be more responsive to the issues that I care about -- regardless of any differences I have with party orthodoxy on any number of issues -- because IMO it, and not the MAGAfied GOP -- is the most realistic electoral vehicle for the changes we so desperately need.
Tears. Such an excellent and deeply moving article! And plea. Plea for "men who are committed to justice, fairness, and equity [to] stand up, speak out, and say as loudly as possible: Not in my name." I couldn't agree more! This is among our many imperatives ― to actively and fiercely and repeatedly not collude in or be complicit with the normalization of misogyny. Thank you, Jackson Katz! ― Molly Strong
I used to admire you and respect your advocacy for women. But now that you have capitulated to the “phallacy” that men can colonize womanhood, I am disillusioned by yet another alleged pro-feminist, as well as my political party, the Democrats. You have betrayed us.
I have capitulated to no one. I continue to focus laser-like on my goal -- increasing gender equality and, more specifically, engaging and mobilizing men in the struggle to dramatically reduce men's violence against women. You might have a different idea of how to go about doing that. Fair enough. But I will carry on.
I hope you follow Kara Dansky and/or Glenna Goldis. Brilliant women (and also attorneys) who explain why men aren’t women and the dangers of humoring that delusion—the hijacking of “gender”
Do you acknowledge the problems with males accessing women's sports and spaces under the guise of being women? In my state (Washington), an intact male calling himself "Haven" sued a women's-only Korean nude spa for not admitting him--and he won. The spa has appealed. My state is also being sued for allowing men who have brutalized women and children to then identify as women and move to the women's prison. These are fully intact men who then share cells and showers with women and harass and rape them. I hope that men who are working to reduce men's violence against women recognize that this is exactly that--men's violence against women. Thanks for reading. Signed, A Lifelong Dem who has left the party.
Excellent article but you missed something there: the Nick Fuentes cry of "Your body, my choice" was hurled against women everywhere after the 2024 election was called. It hits like the slogan of an occupying force. It's not just rhetoric. It's Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court and the ability to control reproduction being ripped away. It's the zone being flooded while E Jean Carroll and Christine Blasey Ford get swept away. Step up, men!
Jackson, I would be ecstatic to read your analysis of FDR and, as you put it, the power of a [male] president "to personify American manhood" through the lens of disability and ableism, as it intersects with masculinity and power in our culture. Particularly examining his disability, public/ media responses to his disability, and the lengths he went to to conceal his disability. I am happy to recommend materials.
Thank, R. Nann. fyi my analysis of presidential masculinity in my book Man Enough and film The Man Card really starts in the late 1960's. I've read a little about FDR's disability -- and his and the media's collusion in keeping it from the public. I'd be happy to check out materials you'd recommend. FDR is such a great and hugely important force in the 20th century. I know he was flawed -- we all are. But what accomplishments.
Ezra Klein recently said that we were told not to normalize Trump during his first term, but as Trump’s second term gets underway the best line of defense is to not “believe him.”
Aside from the MAGA faithful who, in fact, are not the ones who gave him his margin of victory, men across the cultural spectrum need to push back on the lies that falsely allege a “mandate” for him to swagger before us , and our sins and grandsons, as a manly role model.
As a grandfather, I intend to tell my grandsons not to believe in the cowardly and cruel machismo that is currently popularized in certain echo spheres as male virtue. As a retired university chaplain, I’d love to continue my work as a mentor with young men whose sense of humanity, combined with strength through humility, can shape a more generative masculine presence. That’s something to believe!
Amen, Mark! I saw Klein's piece. I think we can refuse to do both -- believe him, and normalize him. I'm convinced -- and continue to write and say -- that many men who voted for him, including tons of young men, did so for reasons of identity and narrative, not because they're committed to a (disastrous) right-wing policy agenda, the likes of which Trump/Musk are now enacting. The Dems/left of center need to do so much better speaking with and to men/young men.
"the guise of “populist” concern about the lives and struggles of average (white) Americans."
Please stop pretending that Trump won because half our country is racist and sexist. Trump increased votes for Republicans from every racial demographic, including black Americans. Trump didn't win because he's a shining star. He won because Democrats' policies are terrible, from the border to DEI to gender ideology. Even women refused to vote for Democrats last November.
You want to talk about sexism? How about Joe Biden's executive order that declared that sex actually means gender identity. Therefore men legally can become women simply by saying they are. Hence, Democrats put male convicted rapists into female prisons. Guess what they did there. Yep. They raped more women. Go Dems!
When Biden's EO that destroyed female sex-based rights was taken down in the courts, Democrats simply used the Department of Education to reverse Title IX's guarantee of equality to females by again declaring that sex actually means gender identity too. Any boy or man who wants to enter female sports can do so simply by declaring he's a girl or woman or even non-binary. Any schools that protect female sports loses academic funding. Go Dems. Take away money for reading teachers if a school prevents an 18 year old HS senior from getting in the shower with 9th grade girls. Since Aug 2024, every male student had the legal right to use the female shower in US high schools and colleges. Luckily, most men and boys are ethical and honorable and chose not to make women and girls feel uncomfortable by forcing their way into female private spaces. Now, thanks to Trump, they can no longer do that. Except in blue states, of course.
Sure, orange man bad. But Trump's executive order on sex and gender ended Biden's reversal of Title IX. The brilliantly worded EO legally reestablishes girls and women's sex-based rights. You claim Trump is undoing feminist gains. Nope, Democrats did that. And for the record, Democrats will never give a federal right to abortion. We know that because we've given them a trifecta three times in the past 50 years and they somehow neglected to establish that right. They can't give it to us because we might stop voting for them or at the very least tell them to quit cooperating with Republicans In perpetual wars for profit. Republicans will never take it away at the federal level because they also need to scare their rooms by saying blue states are baby killers. It's a duopoly but now 20 million Democrats have refused to vote for Democrats.
You also claim Trump has rolled back LGBTQ rights. You must have forgotten that the first letter is L for Lesbian. Trump's sex and gender EO reinstates lesbian rights because lesbians are women. Unlike the men who call themselves women who have been creeping in us in showers in blue states. Thanks to Democrats' inane promotion of gender ideology, lesbians have been getting kicked off social dating apps for not wanting to have sex with heterosexual men who call themselves women and therefore think they've somehow magically transformed into lesbians. Even lesbians who are polite and respectful get called bigots for not wanting to suck a male transgenders female d!ck.
The alphabet groups more properly should be called lgbTQIAAA2SMAP+ because thanks to Democrats' refusal to acknowledge the reality of sex, lesbians, gay men and bisexuals are now persona non grata in the alphabet soup. Gay men sa also get called bigots for not wanting to have sex with hairy faced women who chopped off their breasts. Hint: they're not actually men, as any gay man could tell you. And if you want to know if a so-called trans woman is actually a woman, ask a lesbian. We're not attracted to fake boobs on a man's chest.
Same-sex attraction is not bigotry. So do me a favor and the next time you decide to talk about women's rights or lesbian rights, keep our L name out of your mouth. If you're worried about trans folk, just remember that the rights they want are to oppress people of the opposite sex by pretending to be them.
I don't pretend that "Trump won because half our country is racist and sexist." That is a caricature of a mainstream liberal position and not something I believe or have ever said. Both parties have issues, to be sure. But I will continue to work to push the Dem Party to be more responsive to the issues that I care about -- regardless of any differences I have with party orthodoxy on any number of issues -- because IMO it, and not the MAGAfied GOP -- is the most realistic electoral vehicle for the changes we so desperately need.
Tears. Such an excellent and deeply moving article! And plea. Plea for "men who are committed to justice, fairness, and equity [to] stand up, speak out, and say as loudly as possible: Not in my name." I couldn't agree more! This is among our many imperatives ― to actively and fiercely and repeatedly not collude in or be complicit with the normalization of misogyny. Thank you, Jackson Katz! ― Molly Strong
Thank you, Molly! I appreciate your encouragement very much.
I used to admire you and respect your advocacy for women. But now that you have capitulated to the “phallacy” that men can colonize womanhood, I am disillusioned by yet another alleged pro-feminist, as well as my political party, the Democrats. You have betrayed us.
I have capitulated to no one. I continue to focus laser-like on my goal -- increasing gender equality and, more specifically, engaging and mobilizing men in the struggle to dramatically reduce men's violence against women. You might have a different idea of how to go about doing that. Fair enough. But I will carry on.
I hope you follow Kara Dansky and/or Glenna Goldis. Brilliant women (and also attorneys) who explain why men aren’t women and the dangers of humoring that delusion—the hijacking of “gender”
FWIW I am familiar with Dansky and many more with similar analyses.
Do you acknowledge the problems with males accessing women's sports and spaces under the guise of being women? In my state (Washington), an intact male calling himself "Haven" sued a women's-only Korean nude spa for not admitting him--and he won. The spa has appealed. My state is also being sued for allowing men who have brutalized women and children to then identify as women and move to the women's prison. These are fully intact men who then share cells and showers with women and harass and rape them. I hope that men who are working to reduce men's violence against women recognize that this is exactly that--men's violence against women. Thanks for reading. Signed, A Lifelong Dem who has left the party.
Excellent article but you missed something there: the Nick Fuentes cry of "Your body, my choice" was hurled against women everywhere after the 2024 election was called. It hits like the slogan of an occupying force. It's not just rhetoric. It's Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court and the ability to control reproduction being ripped away. It's the zone being flooded while E Jean Carroll and Christine Blasey Ford get swept away. Step up, men!
I agree, there is just so much to say/write/critique/analyzed. It's a firehose of regression.
Sorry, I obviously made a mistake subscribing. How do I get out of here? What baloney.
This one man who's helping women and girls right now across the globe. You are delusional!
Jackson, I would be ecstatic to read your analysis of FDR and, as you put it, the power of a [male] president "to personify American manhood" through the lens of disability and ableism, as it intersects with masculinity and power in our culture. Particularly examining his disability, public/ media responses to his disability, and the lengths he went to to conceal his disability. I am happy to recommend materials.
Thank, R. Nann. fyi my analysis of presidential masculinity in my book Man Enough and film The Man Card really starts in the late 1960's. I've read a little about FDR's disability -- and his and the media's collusion in keeping it from the public. I'd be happy to check out materials you'd recommend. FDR is such a great and hugely important force in the 20th century. I know he was flawed -- we all are. But what accomplishments.
Ezra Klein recently said that we were told not to normalize Trump during his first term, but as Trump’s second term gets underway the best line of defense is to not “believe him.”
Aside from the MAGA faithful who, in fact, are not the ones who gave him his margin of victory, men across the cultural spectrum need to push back on the lies that falsely allege a “mandate” for him to swagger before us , and our sins and grandsons, as a manly role model.
As a grandfather, I intend to tell my grandsons not to believe in the cowardly and cruel machismo that is currently popularized in certain echo spheres as male virtue. As a retired university chaplain, I’d love to continue my work as a mentor with young men whose sense of humanity, combined with strength through humility, can shape a more generative masculine presence. That’s something to believe!
Amen, Mark! I saw Klein's piece. I think we can refuse to do both -- believe him, and normalize him. I'm convinced -- and continue to write and say -- that many men who voted for him, including tons of young men, did so for reasons of identity and narrative, not because they're committed to a (disastrous) right-wing policy agenda, the likes of which Trump/Musk are now enacting. The Dems/left of center need to do so much better speaking with and to men/young men.