{"id":197217,"date":"2019-11-01T08:32:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T08:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197217"},"modified":"2019-11-05T08:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T08:34:14","slug":"crimes-of-fashion-gq-magazine-goes-on-offensive-against-white-toxic-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197217","title":{"rendered":"Crimes of Fashion: GQ Magazine Goes on Offensive Against \u2018(White) Toxic Masculinity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Robert Bridge &#8212; Strategic Culture Oct 31, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_182305\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gillette-toxic-advert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182305\" class=\"wp-image-182305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gillette-toxic-advert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gillette-toxic-advert.jpg 942w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gillette-toxic-advert-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-182305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gillette&#8217;s &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; advert. Note how 12 of the 13 figures in the photo are white. What happen to the media&#8217;s &#8220;diversity&#8221; code? Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>All things considered, it seems appropriate that GQ, once the final word on male fashions, chose the Halloween season to detail the \u2018new masculinity,\u2019 which is nothing less than horrible, grotesque and, yes, even sinister.<\/h5>\n<h5>There was a strong temptation to simply ignore the hype over GQ and its October issue, which explores the ways that \u201ctraditional notions of masculinity are being challenged.\u201d After all, here was yet another cheap attempt to subvert men and their \u2018toxic masculinity\u2019 lest some hirsute XY chromosome carrier attempts to fix a leaking toilet, speak his mind at a meeting or even take out the leader of a nefarious terrorist group. Moreover, the issue had already been <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/23\/opinion\/GQ-men-masculinity.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>chewed over<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> by other writers, so it didn\u2019t seem necessary at first to add to the conversation<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pharrell for GQ &#8211; The New Masculinity Issue 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pharrell?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pharrell<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gq?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M8SfwEO4HC\">pic.twitter.com\/M8SfwEO4HC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Magazine Covers (@_MagazineCovers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_MagazineCovers\/status\/1183752657422319616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h5>Of all the various commentary on the subject, however, none dared mention the elephant in the GQ hate piece \u2013 and make no mistake, it is hate. This is not the ongoing war against males and their so-called \u2018toxic masculinity\u201d per se, but rather the war against \u2018white toxic masculinity\u2019 and the malignancy believed to be lurking below the surface of every social ill, known as \u2018white patriarchy\u2019. In other words, there is a lot more to this PC obsession with masculinity than first meets the eye. So let\u2019s start at the beginning.<\/h5>\n<h5>On the GQ cover we have Pharrell Williams, American rapper and songwriter, all dressed up with nowhere to go in a flowing and very flaccid pumpkin dress. Some might be wondering, since GQ apparently did not, why men would take any masculinity cues from an individual who once penned an outwardly misogynist song entitled \u2018Blurred Lines\u2019 \u2013 one of the best-selling singles of all time \u2013 which only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/robin-thickes-number-one-single-blurred-lines-accused-of-reinforcing-rape-myths-8667199.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00; text-decoration: underline;\">succeeded<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> in blurring the lines between consensual sex and full-blown rape? The video has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00; text-decoration: underline;\">described<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> as an \u201corgy of female objectification.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Nevertheless, GQ editor Will Welch <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/voices-of-the-new-masculinity\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00; text-decoration: underline;\">celebrated<\/span><\/a> <\/strong><\/span>his joyfully \u201cfrictionless\u201d day with Williams where the rapper opened his soul about the \u2018new masculinity,\u2019 which, in these post-MeToo times, has no safe space for White males. The conversation quickly turned to transgender lifestyles and the villainous white patriarchy that apparently is to blame for things being so out of whack in the world today.<\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cOn the surface, it is an older-straight-white-male world,\u201d Williams complained. \u201cBut it has prompted this [transgender] conversation that I think is deeper than what the new masculinity is or what a non-gender-binary world looks like.<\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cI think we\u2019re in spiritual warfare.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Almost imperceptibly, GQ has already made the sleight of hand from \u2018white patriarchy to toxic masculinity to transgender lifestyle.\u2019<\/h5>\n<h5>Had Welch just stopped the conversation at the esteemed Mr. Williams, perhaps we could just let this \u2018new masculinity\u2019 magazine slip harmlessly into the dust-bin of obscurity. But alas, GQ does not stop at the glorified rapper, but goes on to pick the brains of 18 \u201cinfluential people who are shaping our culture now.\u201d Since we are talking about GQ (of former \u2018Gentlemen\u2019s Quarterly\u2019 fame) it might be assumed that mostly rugged males and perhaps one or two token females would be chosen to speak their minds on the issue of masculinity. Not in these woke times. In fact, this assembled confab would have trouble putting together a single XY chromosome among them.<\/h5>\n<h5>This diverse and very colorful group that apparently knows so much about masculinity is comprised of nine feminists, one transgender male (that is, a biological female), three homosexual men, and three men who are in heterosexual relationships, none of whom, by the way, are representative of the white Caucasian race. The lone \u2018rugged male\u2019 among the pack, white NBA star Kevin Love, is unmarried and childless. Love devoted the bulk of his interview to explaining why men are \u201csupposed to be emotional,\u201d which may go far at explaining his present bachelor status.<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Masculinity then and now <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fJZQWaWhfX\">pic.twitter.com\/fJZQWaWhfX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nicole Russell (@russell_nm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/russell_nm\/status\/1183778326290276354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h5>The advice proffered by this collection of voices is so incredibly discordant I would suggest the reader take the time to examine them individually, painful as that may be. Personally, two particular comments really left an impression and revealed the real agenda at play here. All this talk about \u2018toxic masculinity\u2019 is in fact aimed at \u2018white toxic masculinity\u2019 and the white male population in general. This is revealed first of all by the demographic makeup of the cast of characters, of which there are only two white males, the one being homosexual, the other an emotional bachelor. Needless to say, that is not a fair representation of the US demographics with regards to straight white males, which (still) make up the overwhelming majority of the American male population.<\/h5>\n<h5>Furthermore, the term \u2018white\u2019 is bantered about with disdain so deep you\u2019d think the subject were climate change or male pattern baldness. In fact, I\u2019d go so far as to call it hate. For example, Asia Kate Dillon, introduced heroically as the \u201cactor who brought gender nonconformity to America\u2019s living rooms,\u201d spoke about how she carries \u201cwhite-body privilege\u201d as if she were speaking about the Bubonic plague.<\/h5>\n<h5>Next, in its interview with rapper \u2018Killer Mike,\u2019 GQ asks about his \u201cweapon of choice to fight white patriarchy?\u201d Hold on, Mr. Welch. I thought this was supposed to be an expose on the \u2018new masculinity.\u2019 So why has this conversation veered off the road into a bigoted discussion on race, specifically white race?<\/h5>\n<h5>Later, Hannah Gadsby, the \u201ccomic who\u2019s taking on toxic masculinity,\u201d explains with all the dead humor she can muster, that \u201cthis is the first time that straight white cis men have been forced to think of themselves as anything other than human neutral,\u201d which makes zero sense, thus explaining why nobody thought to broach the topic before.<\/h5>\n<h5>In any case, the underlying message here is that it is not so much \u2018masculinity\u2019 that is toxic and worthy of extermination, but rather \u2018white masculinity\u2019 and, as the article screams between and in the lines, \u2018white patriarchy.\u2019 Why is there no negative singling out of the Black Americans, for example, or Muslim men in this discussion on \u2018toxic masculinity\u2019? Are we to assume that only white masculinity is infected with toxicity? The rampant violence in America\u2019s inner cities, as well as abroad in European capitals that welcomed millions of Middle Eastern refugees, should warn us against jumping to such radical, unfounded conclusions. White Europeans have been guilty of historical crimes, but certainly no less than any other race of peoples. Yet American liberals are determined to change that historic record, for what ulterior motive I have no idea.<\/h5>\n<h5>Yet nowhere is common sense being applied when discussing \u2018toxic masculinity\u2019 and \u2018white patriarchy,\u2019 which are now being used recklessly in the same sentence in a cause and effect relationship. That is a very dangerous and shortsighted assessment of the social, cultural and political realities facing Western civilization. We embrace it at the risk of total societal collapse.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2019\/10\/31\/crimes-of-fashion-gq-magazine-goes-on-offensive-against-white-toxic-masculinity\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the ongoing war against males and their so-called \u2018toxic masculinity\u201d per se, but rather the war against \u2018white toxic masculinity\u2019. 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