Well, I did put "macho" in quotes because it's not entirely correct, it just makes a handy shorthand.
Entitlement isn't evil. There *are* things we should be entitled to. But getting mad at the world because you aren't getting things that you *aren't* actually entitled to, that's a problem.
Alas, too many of the school shooters seem to have the "I deserve a girlfriend" idea stuck in their heads.
That's as much rape culture as entitlement with a big dash of "male privilege" thrown in. Yet another reason we need to stomp on those sets of memes. And it's why mass shooters are so overwhelmingly male.
Other parts of their sense of entitlement is due to "white privilege" being so ingrained that most don't admit it exists. With these guys, they are angry because they aren't getting the "privileges" they expect.
And that's why mass shooters are overwhelmingly white (and middle class). :-(
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Entitlement isn't evil. There *are* things we should be entitled to. But getting mad at the world because you aren't getting things that you *aren't* actually entitled to, that's a problem.
Alas, too many of the school shooters seem to have the "I deserve a girlfriend" idea stuck in their heads.
That's as much rape culture as entitlement with a big dash of "male privilege" thrown in. Yet another reason we need to stomp on those sets of memes. And it's why mass shooters are so overwhelmingly male.
Other parts of their sense of entitlement is due to "white privilege" being so ingrained that most don't admit it exists. With these guys, they are angry because they aren't getting the "privileges" they expect.
And that's why mass shooters are overwhelmingly white (and middle class). :-(