Millennials and masculinity

[gabrielle]

(11-08-2018, 05:54 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: We know that civic generations should be preoccupied with masculinity and have a disdain for female influence in politics. 

I'm not sure this is necessarily true.  

It seems to me that from the victory of the 19th Amendment onward through the sexual revolution of the 1920s, the era of fast-talking, pants-wearing dames like Barbara Stanwyck to the Rosie the Riveter crisis era there was a steady advancement in the roles of women.  Disdain for women in politics?  Compared with today, certainly, but women were becoming more involved than ever before--women like Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins.



Often during times of particularly dynamic advancement for women there is an accompanying undercurrent of male anxiety.  That's why you'll see in a lot of old films of the era, particularly after the Hayes Code, there is an admonishment for strong women to eventually slow their role, so to speak, or face punishment.  Feminist sentiments are particularly strong today, but you can detect a seething resentment in the underground.  Sometimes this comes out in violent ways; many of the mass shootings of recent years are misogynist in nature.  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...g-misogyny