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Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith on Masculinity, Politics, Christianity - Coggle…
Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith on Masculinity, Politics, Christianity
Masculinity
“So if a politician comes across as masculine, hyper-aggressivethe American public is more likely than not willing to forgive that particular politician for whatever sexual indiscretions he's committed”
“the family is the basic core building block. of society, many conservatives will argue because it is the place where male energies are harnessed through female morality”
“He (David Patraeus) was in most news outlets described as a guy who just let his guard down. And he's learned his lesson. She (Paula Broadwell) was described as a Vixen, as a tornado, a sexual tornado who came through and obliterated everything around her”
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“we have normalized white male heterosexuality as the productive normal family man...it’s very classed too...but if you're black... you are read as a hyper-masculine threat to the rest of the nation."
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Politics
“many of the sex and gender norms that have been generated within Evangelical groups ... what you often find is that there is this sense that God made men sexual because their ...libidos are actually the power that drives society.”
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“part of patriotism is believing that your nation is strong, but also moral... you got to have both of those two things together”
Strength and morality exist together, so if men are strong they must be moral
“In the case of...Katie Hill, a woman who runs for office….she doesn’t have any sort of symbolic capital to offer the public to convince them that she can fulfill that leadership protection role...The public already does not associate...female identity with leadership”
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Christianity
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“it does associate masculinity with sexuality and it also associates femininity with asexuality or with a lowered sex drive or at the very least with a sex drive that is only appropriately expressed within the confines of heterosexual marriage.”
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“many of the sex and gender norms that have been generated within evangelical groups...what you often find is that there is this sense that God made men sexual because their ...libidos are actually the power that drives society.”
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“Evangelical rhetoric...enables Americans to excuse certain politicians for their sexual misbehavior”
“moralistic rhetoric can be used to understand his sexual peccadilloes as a bit undesirable, perhaps, but as a sign of the raw energy and drive, it takes to make a nation great.”
“religion is a way of communicating with authority...Religion gives authority to speech, to action and so on. It's also a way to create social boundaries.”