![]() ![]() We so often assume both in the scientific community, and in our culture at large, that Darwin thought humans were violent and competitive and self-interested in their natural state. Speaking of Darwin, the director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory, and author of the book, “Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life,” Dacher Keltner recently said: But dispatching these notions that it is the big, bold, and abusive that reign in human nature is a cakewalk. The “titans” of industry, too, benefit by these assumptions suggesting they are simply more capable people. Guardians of male privilege love to reference the natural order. Our entire survival-of-the-fittest economic rubric that pits worker against worker is built upon a perversion of Charles Darwin’s work, a man who found empathy and cooperation exponentially more vital to natural systems than competition. Insurrection-the rising in revolt-is where we are.Īnd the targets, the justifications for these centuries of male dominance, when we get down to it, are fictions. “For decades his objectification of women has remained as consistent as the ugliness of his values as a self-appointed judge of female worth, he and his beauty pageants and reality shows have perpetuated the misogynistic standards that nullify the value of any woman who is not very young, very thin and conventionally attractive.”īut, Bennett adds in a welcome analysis, “women are becoming ever less compliant-and female insurrection is particularly upsetting to men who are already anxious about their ability to maintain their authority.” Trump with WWE performers, 2009. “As the possessor of a penis, celebrity and a fortune, Trump has never questioned his right to inspect and rank women in terms of his own interest in having sex with them,” Leslie Bennett writes for the Guardian. Trump’s misogyny is no surprise to anyone. In a “king of the jungle way,” you might say. ![]() And, for the record, that’s “prowling,” you know, in a good way. “I thought it was like a big silver-backed gorilla prowling, prowling the studio,” Farage said after the debate. This display of what Pence continually adores as Trump’s “broad-shouldered leadership” similarly titillated the leader of the United Kingdom’s right-wing populist UKIP party, Nigel Farage. Trump shadowing Clinton at the last presidential debate. There could perhaps be no better backdrop for a full-frontal assault on male entitlement than one so dominated by the “broad shoulders” that loomed so menacingly behind Hillary Clinton in the last presidential debate. After all, there are “killers,” Trump’s father drilled into his children, and there are “losers.” Of course, Trump’s response to adversity has always been a focused counterstrike: denials, lawsuits, and more insults. As if this is normal,” Michelle Obama said this week. “Too many are treating this as just another day’s headline. Trump’ subsequent denial of his bragged-about offenses then snowballed into a national conversation on sexual violence. Since Donald Trump was caught bragging about his ability to sexually assault women and get away with it, a growing number of self-described victims of his self-described predation have begun to crowd the news cycle. ![]() This is a recall election on the patriarchy. ![]()
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