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A Man With A Gun, A Woman With None
Weighing in on the USA gun safety debate while nothing ever improves
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD
The power and the glory
Men like guns.
Women like make-up, clothes, perky tutorials, babies, cooking, music, comedy, and, strangely, India stuff. (I know I do.)
Men like gaming, superhero movies, violence, porn, and quite often “manly junk.”
It is a puzzle for our “woke” times that so many men gravitate toward all these mega-popular videos and attitudes. Aren’t all of us, a civilization that is threatened by wokeness, by feminism run amok, too many demands for racial and gender equality, a populace realizing climate and inequity disaster, etc., are we not ripe for real change?
What is going on?
Men like guns because guns truly are powerful. In war, in bro-hood, and in every movie, they represent not just manhood, but power and glory.
The gun is mightier than the chalkboard
Yael Wolfe weighed in on the gun safety debate. Like millions of other voices, she asks about murdered children. How many is…