Sunday, January 20, 2019

MAGA Boys in D.C. and Toxic Masculinity

Dozens of white boys from Covington Catholic High School in northern Kentucky attending a "Right to Life" rally in Washington D.C. have been caught on video ridiculing, taunting, and mocking elder Nathan Phillips during an Indigenous Peoples March.

From the Good Men Project, Alex Yarde discusses this harassment, as well as the recent Gillette advertisement about toxic masculinity to discuss how men are in this country are taught to be males, including the role models men are to boys.

"In my opinion, by the time a boy needs a razor, that cake is baked. A melange of parental guidance, social pressures, personal life choices and heroes he admires and emulates, determines the kind of man he will become. Garbage in, garbage out."

Privileges expected from being on top of our nation's hierarchies are becoming more and more obvious as Donald Trump encourages his supporters to insist on those privileges. These boys are no exception.

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-one-you-feed-white-youths-wearing-maga-hats-taunt-and-disrespect-native-elder-during-d-c-indigenous-peoples-march/