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Wir schießen euch in die Vagina – über die Krise der modernen Männlichkeit
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Tino Hanekamp war Journalist und Musikjournalist, hat in Hamburg zwei Musikclubs gegründet (Weltbühne, Uebel & Gefährlich), einen Roman geschrieben (‚So was von da‘) und unlängst ein Buch über Nick Cave ('... über Nick Cave'). Er lebt im Süden Mexikos.
Jüngst sagte der philippinische Präsident Duterte den weiblichen Rebellen in seinem Land: “We will not kill you. We will just shoot you in the vagina.” Wir schreiben das Jahr 2018. In seinem hier verlinkten Essay setzt sich der indische Autor Pankaj Mishra mit der Krise der modernen Männlichkeit auseinander:
... whether Hindu chauvinist, radical Islamist or white nationalist, their self-image depends on despising and excluding women. It is as though the fantasy of male strength measures itself most gratifyingly against the fantasy of female weakness ... these rancorously angry men are symptoms of an endemic and seemingly unresolvable crisis of masculinity.
Wann hat dieser Irrsinn begonnen? Und warum greift er so unaufhaltsam um sich? Putin, Erdoğan, Duterte, Trump …
This recurrent search for security in coarse manhood confirms that the history of modern masculinity is the history of a fantasy. It describes the doomed quest for a stable and ordered world that entails nothing less than war on the irrepressible plurality of human existence – a war that is periodically renewed despite its devastating failures. An outlandish phobia of women and effeminacy may be hardwired into the long social, political and cultural dominance of men. It could be that their wounded sense of entitlement, or resentment over being denied their customary claim to power and privilege, will continue to make many men vulnerable to such vendors of faux masculinity as Trump and Modi. A compassionate analysis of their rage and despair, however, would conclude that men are as much imprisoned by man-made gender norms as women.
Ein komplexer, fordernder Essay, der zu einem erstaunlich empathischem Fazit findet:
... masculinity has become a source of great suffering – for men as much as women. To understand this is not only to grasp its global crisis today. It is also to sight one possibility of resolving the crisis: a release from the absurd but crippling fear that one has not been man enough.
Quelle: Pankaj Mishra Bild: The Guardian EN theguardian.com
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