{"id":5502,"date":"2015-10-07T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:10:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:10:24","slug":"masculinity-and-mass-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/10\/07\/masculinity-and-mass-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Over-conforming to Masculinity? Don&#8217;t Shoot."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4413\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/09\/gun.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4413\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/09\/gun.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Gideon Tsang via flickr.com\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/09\/gun.jpg 320w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/09\/gun-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Gideon Tsang via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/01\/us\/oregon-college-shooting\/\">mass shooting<\/a>, social scientists and the American community at large are engaging in some familiar conversations. While some folks are looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/health-and-behavior\/actually-know-connections-mental-illness-mass-shootings-gun-violence-83103\">mental illness<\/a> as a trigger to violence and others are asking for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/02\/world\/can-legislation-prevent-mass-shootings\/\">gun laws<\/a> that would put restrictions on gun ownership, sociologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockport.edu\/sociology\/faculty\/bridges.html\">Tristan Bridges<\/a> wants to draw some focus on the role of masculinity in violence.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Society\/2015\/1002\/Many-school-shooters-one-common-factor-a-warped-view-of-masculinity?cmpid=addthis_twitter&amp;utm_content=buffer96a03&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\"><em>The Christian Science Monitor<\/em><\/a> that he believes the mass shooters are \u201cover-conforming to masculinity, because they perceive themselves, in some way or another, as emasculated\u2026 It\u2019s a terrible statement about American masculinity, to say that when you\u2019re emasculated, one way to respond is to open fire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following yet another mass shooting, social scientists and the American community at large are engaging in some familiar conversations. While some folks are looking at mental illness as a trigger to violence and others are asking for gun laws that would put restrictions on gun ownership, sociologist Tristan Bridges wants to draw some focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2058,"featured_media":4413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,15,55],"tags":[39116,39114,17258,250,1976,38158,27056,39115],"class_list":["post-5502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-gender","tag-crime","tag-gender","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-masculinity","tag-mass-shooting","tag-mass-violence","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/09\/gun.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5505,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions\/5505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}