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In reply to the discussion: HOW did a generation of young men's brains get f-ed up enough to produce this bigotry about Jolie? [View all]Laelth
(32,017 posts)It's possible that REAL men love women, desire women, and want women in their lives, but are afraid of women and threatened by them at the same time.
Thus, I argue, we see the modern Republican party ... a bunch of people voting for the "penis" party and against their own interests because, at bottom, their real fear is of women, but they can't stand the cognitive dissonance of both loving women and fearing women at the same time, so they transfer that fear onto others ... socialists, Marxists, communists, people with darker skin, people who don't speak English as a native language, poor people who exploit government largess, terrorists, Muslims, etc. And the Republican Party exploits these fears, to great effect.
Or, so I suggest.
-Laelth