Sunday, August 23, 2009
White Male Sexual Anxiety
So I've been thinking about the men who came to meetings with President Obama with rifles (see my previous post). I believe the reason why they do it is the deep-seated white male sexual anxiety that is activated by seeing a very attractive and powerful black man. In this sense, a rifle serves as a huge phallic symbol that is aimed at reducing their sexual anxiety.
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The pictures in the previous post do not show most of the time, but when they show, there seems to be a black guy with the rifle in the first of them. I admit, he looks like some kind of a security guard to me, but if that is true - where is the "anxious white male with the rifle"?
:) :)
V.
OK, he is in the second picture...
V.
It's hard to see the pictures, especially from some computers. My home computer doesn't show them at all for some reason.
Dear Madam,
I've been reading a lot of feminist writing lately, and have found much of it refreshingly reasonable.
I cannot say the same for this post. To assume that men subconsciously attribute a rifle as a remedy for being sexually inferior is absurd. That you would actually post such a claim with absolutely no evidence aside from wild speculation is a shock to me, considering you call yourself an 'academic.'
M
Dear Sir,
I have to say that I find your way of address refreshing.
I don't call myself an academic, it's just who I am. :-) There is a type of analysis and criticism that's called psychoanalytical criticism. Accoring to its tenets, a gun (and sometimes also a car) serve as a symbolic substitute for a penis. This is the kind of analysis I attempted in this post. Each phenomenon can be analyzed from different points of view. If this type of analysis is not your thing, that's perfectly ok. I find it useful on certain occasions, not always.
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