Podcast: How Purity, Power, and Fear Police Masculinity
How the default-ness of male sexuality — which includes gay male sexuality — can fuel violence, the Manosphere, and religious extremism
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When we look across culture, we see that desire, relationships, and power are often explicitly and implicitly built around maleness — which includes male sexuality, which includes male homosexuality.
In this podcast, we discuss how Catholic culture can instantiate the same structures Andrew Tate proposes. We also talk about how non-male queer folks can be sidelined by the power that cisgender gay men (especially those who are white-passing) can horde.