I see it as a byproduct of capitalism and the commodification of gender roles to the point that people become possessive of particular aspects of their gender.

If you think of race as a property right, the in a white supremacist capitalist system white people will defend the concept of whiteness with violence. Whiteness is a concept that although is intangible and really leaves them worse off in the eyes of people who see their goal of racial supremacy as fleeting and self destructive, it carries with it the promise of work, higher pay, better credit, higher home values, second chances in the criminal justice system, strong career networks, the best health outcomes, etc. They are attached to these pieces of identity that are associated with whiteness much like men are attached to aspects of masculinity which in the eyes of many are fleeting and self destructive. The objectification, commodification and exploitation of war, adventure (like stanley and livingstone), racial domination, religious dogma (through prosperity preaching), and of course sexual conquest, are all aspects of masculinity that are being spread through social media like a virus. While at the same time people are becoming more possessive of these conceptual pieces of property and are willing to fight to thw death for it.


America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.