Fox News guest thinks Texas shooter murdered children because masculinity is 'under attack'

[RandySF]

The world has been reeling this month after two mass shootings took place in the US within two weeks.

On 14 May, a racist shooter opened fire in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and just 10 days later, a teenager killed 21 people, including 19 children, in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas.

But on 26 May, Fox News invited Blaze Media‘s Jason Whitlock to be interviewed on Jesse Watters Primetime, with host Jesse Watters asking him: “What do you think is the main factor in our culture that’s triggering this kind of rise in mass shootings, especially at schools?”

Whitlock responded: “Cowardice. Fear and cowardice. Our culture is controlled by fear and cowardice. Masculinity, traditional male values, are under attack.


“It’s not any mystery why young boys are confused, angry, confused about their identity, angry at the world. Their natural instincts have been under attack… since we turned over our culture to the pansies in northern California and their social media apps.



https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/27/texas-shooting-fox-news-jesse-watters-jason-whitlock/

[Lovie777]

1. The mental illness in RWers is strong .....

[Nevilledog]

2. Is he talking about the gunman or the police?

[Aristus]

3. 'Pansies'.

There's a sign of a cogent argument...

[elleng]

4. 'Fox news guest' has his own masculinity problems, obviously;

it's called 'projection.'

[bottomofthehill]

5. Nothing screams masculinity like the slaughter of children

[CurtEastPoint]

6. That GD football player (what IS IT w/them?) has about as much business on tv as my cat.

https://www.audacy.com/sports/social-media-slams-jason-whitlock-for-controversial-tweet-following-texas-elementary-school-shooting

[Jerry2144]

7. in a way they're right

people who feel inadequate in their manliness turn to Giant Trucks like the Ram Compensator and the Chevy PP-X-10-DR and to high-powered guns in the hopes those will make up for their small manlinesses.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Sure, shooting grade school kids is real macho.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Exactly.

.

I was going to write, "Nothing says 'Man' like shooting helpless women and children."

.

[Celerity]

9. fuck that Uncle Ruckus POS

[milestogo]

10. Its too bad "traditional male values" always seem to be misogynist.

Yes, men have lost power over women. We are now equals. Get used to it.

[Caliman73]

12. What exactly about masculinity is under attack?

I am a man. I have been an athlete (including boxing training). I have been in fights in my life, though the last one was many decades ago, because I am a grown ass man. I can work with tools and fix stuff on my car, and build stuff. I know about sports, etc...

I am not necessarily an "ultra masculine" man, but I consider myself to have many traits that would be considered masculine.

SO, I ask all of these idiots, What the fuck are you even talking about that masculinity is under attack?!?

I certainly do not feel under attack. I don't feel ashamed or confused or anything about being a man.

What I know HAS been under attack RIGHTFULLY is the way that some men can be sexist and misogynistic. That there are men out their who advocate and perpetrate violence against women and chalk it up to "boys will be boys". That there are men out their who degrade women, who degrade gay men, who use comparisons to women and gay men as insults. People like Whitlock who use "pansy" which is both a flower and an insult based on perceived femininity, are what have been under attack - idiots who don't understand that men have to be better than they were when sexism was more socially acceptable. Men who cannot adapt to changing times.