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This is really interesting viewpoint, consider turning this into an essay or something longer form. I'm sure plenty of people would be interested. It's uncomfo
by voldacar 5y ago
This is really interesting viewpoint, consider turning this into an essay or something longer form. I'm sure plenty of people would be interested.
It's uncomfortable to say because of how racist it sounds, but I've noticed the tendency you mentioned of Black culture to homogenize the way men present themselves to the world. What do you think is the real root cause of this? It has to be something extremely powerful if it affects even the cultural leaders, the producers of the values consumed by the average people. I'm sure a lot of people would just say it's a result of oppression and slavery, but to me that sounds like a just-so story.
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- imbnwa 5y agoThings got real bad within the lifetime of my mother, the recessions of the 70s and 80s were suffered most harshly in the Black community, never mind the introduction of crack cocaine, where most of our middle class was decimated by the mid 90s (the last auto factory closures in the Flint/Detroit area, Flint a majority Black factory town). Nationwide however, both Black and non-Black American males have been negotiating a crisis of masculinity that tracks the rate of single-mother households nationwide since the end of the 50s or so IIRC, hence the prominence of Jordan Peterson and Kevin Samuels as spearheads in the counter-feminist trend of the last few years