Alice Bolin Quote
Violent men’s grievances are born out of a conviction of their personal righteousness and innocence: they are never the instigators; they are only righting what has been done to them. This shit-eating innocence is crucial to the fantasy of American masculinity, a bizarre collection of expectations and tropes so paralytically infantile, as James Baldwin writes in Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood, that it is virtually forbidden—as an unpatriotic act—that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.
Alice Bolin
Violent men’s grievances are born out of a conviction of their personal righteousness and innocence: they are never the instigators; they are only righting what has been done to them. This shit-eating innocence is crucial to the fantasy of American masculinity, a bizarre collection of expectations and tropes so paralytically infantile, as James Baldwin writes in Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood, that it is virtually forbidden—as an unpatriotic act—that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.