#performativemasculinity — Public Fediverse posts
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O Quel Cul T’as: The Pat, The Politics and The Perfectly Fake Marriage
In 1969, Kenneth Tynan named a nude revue after a French pun about a woman's backside. In 2026, the forty-seventh president of the United States provided the perfect sequel. The gesture lasted less than a second. The politics behind it have been building for decades. -
"Trump is surrounded by people who are making money from the war; each day of war strengthens a warmongering lobby with personal access to the president. As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases."
#Hegseth #Trump #Iran #war #incompetence #WhiteChristianNationalism #PerformativeMasculinity #EconomicElites #oil #gas #profiteering
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"Now we have Hegseth, the former Fox Business weekend host, supplying the slogan that sums up the authoritarian approach to international relations:
'We negotiate with bombs,' Hegseth declared at a recent press conference."
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #war #Iran
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"The unfolding of the Iran war confirms that Trump sees diplomacy as a waste of time and compromise as a sign of weakness. We know now that the administration rejected negotiated solutions that would have given the Trump administration a 'win.' Instead, they chose violence, bombing rather than signing an agreement to end the conflict."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #war #Iran
/6https://lucid.substack.com/p/video-and-essay-convo-wrep-crow-on
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Noting that "Trump, like many other right-wing leaders before him, has a long history with combat sports," TPM announces that at 3 P.M. today (EST, I think) it will discuss "how martial arts has become right coded." A link to log in is in the article linked below.
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #MMA
/5https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tpm-live-trump-the-right-and-martial-arts
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"So it’s no surprise that the administration has turned itself into a promotion machine for MMA, and in particular the UFC."
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #MMA
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"This administration & the entire right-wing movement is full of pasty edgelords looking for other men through whom they can achieve a vicarious experience of masculinity. And the performance of manhood to which they are most attracted is violence, whether it’s in the ring or perpetrated by a masked ICE goon giving a beat-down to a peaceful protester."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #MMA
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"I mean his anger. For all the wealth, fame, and power he has accumulated, Trump is an angry man directing an angry administration."
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"Screw negotiations. Screw soft power like USAID and VOA. Screw partnering with allies. What matters most to them is making the biggest booms. ...
If you can’t answer 'What is my ultimate goal?' and estimate the cost of achieving it, then all the big booms are useless if not counterproductive."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance #hubris
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"Trump and Hegseth seem to be in love with what they think of as their Big Boy Toys. Supreme excellence in their minds seems to be blowing things up better than anyone else can blow things up. We can blow up more things than anyone else. We can blow things into smaller pieces than anyone else can. We can blow up things from a greater distance than anyone else can."
~ Peterr
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance #hubris
/38https://emptywheel.net/2026/03/12/great-tactics-mean-nothing-if-you-have-no-strategy/
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Seattle Opera made a discount code TIMOTHEE for 14% off 💃😅👏
https://operawire.com/seattle-opera-announces-timothee-chalamet-discount-code-for-carmen/
#misogyny #manosphere #ballet #opera #ToxicMasculinity #conservative #femininity #TimothéeChalamet #masculinity #TheArts #PerformativeMasculinity #SeattleOpera
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Seattle Opera made a discount code TIMOTHEE for 14% off 💃😅👏
https://operawire.com/seattle-opera-announces-timothee-chalamet-discount-code-for-carmen/
#misogyny #manosphere #ballet #opera #ToxicMasculinity #conservative #femininity #TimothéeChalamet #masculinity #TheArts #PerformativeMasculinity #SeattleOpera
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Seattle Opera made a discount code TIMOTHEE for 14% off 💃😅👏
https://operawire.com/seattle-opera-announces-timothee-chalamet-discount-code-for-carmen/
#misogyny #manosphere #ballet #opera #ToxicMasculinity #conservative #femininity #TimothéeChalamet #masculinity #TheArts #PerformativeMasculinity #SeattleOpera
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Seattle Opera made a discount code TIMOTHEE for 14% off 💃😅👏
https://operawire.com/seattle-opera-announces-timothee-chalamet-discount-code-for-carmen/
#misogyny #manosphere #ballet #opera #ToxicMasculinity #conservative #femininity #TimothéeChalamet #masculinity #TheArts #PerformativeMasculinity #SeattleOpera
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"Without intervention, Trump will do to Tehran what Netanyahu did to Gaza, not because of a nuclear program, but because Trump needs a grandiose gesture to restore his grandiose self-image."
~ Jim Stewartson
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war #strongman #PerformativeMasculinity
/27https://www.mind-war.com/p/vibe-war-i-the-president-had-a-feeling
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"People talk about religious nationalism as a kind of aiming for pure theocracy, but it's not. I think it's better described as a kind of — If you're looking at leaders like Putin and Russia, or if you're looking at leaders in Iran, or leaders like in Orban, Hungary — what they really are is kleptocratic autocrats who are bubble-wrapping themselves in sanctimony."
~ Katherine Stewart
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war #strongman #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity
/7https://andrawatkins.substack.com/p/katherine-stewart-discusses-money
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"Trump can’t even take credit for Khamenei’s death. Pete Hegseth said Israeli strikes killed him Saturday. The only 'credit' he can claim is having followed Netanyahu’s lead. …
This is why the president lied Tuesday. To assert dominance, he said he was the one to force Netanyahu’s hand, not the other way around."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war #strongman #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity
/6https://www.editorialboard.com/with-war-against-iran-trump-compounds-magas-crisis-of-faith/
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"Trump has gotten used to the sheer rush from his repeated, relatively low-risk, high-reward deployments of American force around the world. America’s most performatively macho President has always been attracted to spectacular displays of military power; in his first year back in office, he ordered attacks on seven different nations—more than any other modern President."
~ Susan Glasser
#Trump #Iran #war #strongman #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Even decisions to go to war are easy when you only think about the outcome for one person, no matter the chaos and instability and violence your actions cause for millions."
#Trump #Iran #war #strongman #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Trump, too, is setting into motion processes that will endanger national security and make Americans targets, even though Americans did not want this war and it had no Congressional approval or discussion among our elected representatives. But he doesn’t care, as long as he is personally safe."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #Iran #war #strongman #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity
/3https://lucid.substack.com/p/wars-and-autocratic-decision-making
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"We are at war now, a war that is transparently one of a series of masculinity contests."
And, of course, Snyder's point is that a primary reason Trump is waging his war of choice now is to puff himself up and make himself appear strong and manly as the elections approach.
#Trump #Iran #war #strongman #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity
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"When I look at Donald Trump as a person, I see a failed real estate guy from Queens with a lot of natural showman talent, whose obviously poor physical condition is covered by terrible, ill-fitting suits and a lot of makeup. When I listen to him I hear incoherent bluster and self-absorbed whining. None of this makes me experience him as strong."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #Iran #war #strongman #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity
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"In the ideology that honors violent domination, Trump’s bombing Iran without regard for the Constitution or international law, when no president before him had done so, proves his strength."
#Trump #Iran #cowboys #individualism #PerformativeMasculinity #dominance #violence
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"The old idea of a cowboy from rural America who cuts through the government bureaucracy that threatens his livelihood by coddling racial minorities and women has curdled into the notion that a leader can do whatever it takes, including violence, to force opponents to submit to his will."
#Trump #Iran #cowboys #individualism #PerformativeMasculinity #dominance #violence
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"Whatever their immediate trigger, the [American] strikes [on Iran] fall in line with the ideology of cowboy individualism that began to take over the Republican Party in the 1980s and which, under Trump, has turned into brutal displays of dominance."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Iran #cowboys #individualism #PerformativeMasculinity #dominance #violence
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"It feels like nothing starts until President Trump arrives — until daddy's home, as so many people say."
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy, Fox News
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
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"and sets them loose on a public it has warned is full of not just criminal illegal immigrants, but un-American subhumans, among the worst of whom are AWFULs: Affluent White Female Urban Liberals."
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
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"In other words, ICE is a force of men who have felt small and have now been empowered by an administration that tells them they’re manliest of men, hands them guns and tactical gear, gives them precious little training, explicitly tells them they will be held to virtually no legal or moral standards," (continued in /5)
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
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"Men who feel that their masculinity is being compromised are more likely to act out with physical aggression — and 'your masculinity has been compromised' was a major talking point during the Trump campaign. In its recruitment ads, ICE promises masculine restoration."
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
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"Men whose masculinity is fragile may be more prone to violence — they are more likely to interpret disagreement as disrespect, and to see disrespect as a challenge to their status."
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
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"ICE recruitment is aimed at men who want to feel powerful, who want to bond with other men by committing social acts of violence, and who are drawn in by Nazi slogans. Also: Men with daddy issues."
~ Jill Filipovic
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
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