CONTEMPORARY MASCULINITY is an EMOTIONAL AR15
The AR15 is an assault weapon that fires multiple rounds at breakneck speed doing lethal damage. Global contemporarywestern white masculinity is an emotional AR15. It is an assault weapon of emotional ammunition, loaded and pepper spraying rounds that turn into policy, threaten thriving futures and jeopardise collective, global safety.
The emotional AR15’s ammo is unexpressed grief, unnamed trauma, pain, entitlement, accountability-free accountability, bone deep loneliness , infantilization – all loaded into a male body stuffed and suppressed, and then pepper sprayed in leadership, labor, governance, worship and institutions of liberation.
This western white masculinity as an emotional AR15 has turned too many men into emotional terrorists. They weaponize their fear,wreak havoc, face no repercussions and argue that it is their lives, their worlds, their needs that are going unmet, crashing, abandoned in the steady march towards something resembling an expanded humanity.
There is no leadership, salvation, thriving or healing in this contemporary version of white masculinity. IjeomaOluo’s book ‘MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America’ lays this out powerfully.
In America, pedophiles, criminals, and staggeringly blatant mediocrity shapes policy and lectures the rest of the nation on greatness, glory and a return to a historical brutality still buried in bones and blood, now reframed as ‘not that bad’.
It is a shit-show.
