Ron DeSantis' 'grotesque anti-woke performance has been called 'aggrieved entitlement.' And the Republican governor of Florida is betting his political fortune on it.'
in Virginia recently pulled the trigger on his teacher, but we do know that school shooters—of all ages—almost always show signs of aggrieved manhood. Alongside calls for gun safety and mental-health resources, we need to flatten the curve of this feeling.
To contend with Trump 2.0, our vocabulary needs a booster shot. Aggrieved manhood has already proven itself an infectious strain ofKaren L. Ashcraft is the author of"Wronged and Dangerous: Viral Masculinity and the Populist Pandemic." She's a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and grew up in the lap of the religious right.
Like Trump, DeSantis represents aggrieved manhood, the growing conviction that masculinity is under attack and must be restored to set society right. I say this not as a professor on defense, but as a white woman born of evangelical populism and reared on manly grievance, who learned it firsthand and by heart. Aggrieved manhood is reactive: the gnawing feeling that “real men”—especially the straight white Western Christian kind—have been getting a bad rap and shouldn’t take it anymore.
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