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June 17, 2020 - Davis Aurini
06:58
The Progressive Perception of Healthy Masculinity

Originally uploaded March, 2017

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In this video, I'd like to consider what it is that social justice warriors think they're struggling against.
What is the leftist perception of healthy masculinity?
And I'm making this video because I decided to watch a recent movie bob review of Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson's latest piece.
Now, Mel Gibson has a history of really understanding the masculine heroic.
From the original Road Warrior films to Apocalypto, even that movie Signs, which didn't really turn out so well, you still see this stoic, courageous man trying to defend his family even as his heart suffers.
I think Mel Gibson is really one of the most heroic figures in Hollywood right now.
And from everything I hear, Hacksaw Ridge is a wonderful film.
What interested me was specifically why Movie Bob didn't like it.
Listen to the following characterization of Mel Gibson.
He's possessed of a profoundly disturbed psyche driven by a toxic melange of masochism, self-hatred, masculine overcompensation, and martyr complex religiosity, and that's apparent even in a cursory glance of this filmography as directa.
Did you catch all that?
Masochism, self-hatred, masculine overcompensation, and martyr complex religiosity.
This is what these social justice warriors perceive healthy masculinity as being.
Okay, they actually think that we are mentally ill for behaving in this way.
And so what do they mean by all of these terms?
The first masochism.
The masochism that Bob refers to is what we'd call as self-sacrifice.
The fact that it's a man's duty to work and to provide.
It's our duty to get our knuckles bloodied and our hands dirty fixing the car or defending the family.
That masochism, that recognization that yes, we must suffer to do what we must do, they can only view through the paradigm of sexuality, as if we enjoy the suffering for its own sake, as opposed to recognizing it as a duty.
Next is what he calls self-hatred.
Now the self-hatred he's talking about, this is self-denial.
This is recognizing that there are elements within yourself that are unacceptable, that there are passions and lusts, that there's bitterness, that there's a vengeful nature within your own heart, and that these are not acceptable.
You cannot act on these things.
You must deny the self.
This they view as self-hatred, having this self-denial, this self-control.
Now, the masculine overcompensation that he talks about, this is the heroic aspect.
This is the element in the healthy male psyche that seeks to be the hero despite the fact that we all fall short, despite the fact that we're all scared, that we're all inadequate, we still strive to achieve that heroic ideal.
He considers this overcompensation, some sort of narcissistic attempt to be cool, as opposed to a very humble attempt to pursue the heroic.
And the final one, the martyr complex religiosity.
Now this is a generalized attack on Christianity, of course, but it's also an attack on the whole core premise of Christianity, which is Jesus Christ dying in shame on the cross for us.
This is Mad Max as the hero that fights for these villagers who wind up tricking him to distract the bad guys, and so he never truly gets the appreciation he deserves for everything he's done, and yet he did it because it was the right thing to do.
That humbleness, that charity in the masculine heart, that we don't always need recognition for the things that we do.
We don't do these things for recognition.
We do them for the sake of the good.
These SJWs really view moral behavior and self-sacrifice and holding oneself up to standards.
They view this as a pathology.
And it's very interesting in Movie Bob's case because he's at other times he's done these videos where he's dressed up as some sort of Japanese mecha warrior fighting some sort of big bad thing with laser bolts and other nonsense of that nature.
He has a very infantilized, juvenile understanding of all this.
Like there's the realm of heroic violence which only exists with lasers and aliens and mech warriors and cartoons, a very childhood understanding of what it means to be a hero.
Whereas in the physical world, the actual real world violence of police officers is nothing but that of the jackboot.
Same thing with the soldier, nothing but a jackboot.
Okay, this is why they are so opposed to guns and they also hate the cops, who are the ones that wind up enforcing the laws when you don't have a gun.
They can't imagine violence as noble or necessary or heroic or anything like that.
It's a very sad world, a very regressed world, regressed to a very childhood understanding, and proto-sexual in a way.
They're constantly rubbing themselves like an eight-year-old on a playground that just knows that that part of his body feels tingly when he touches it.
And the same thing with violence and heroism.
Heroism is just something to pretend to be.
It's just an outfit to put on.
And so when he sees people that are actually living those lives, living difficult, courageous lives, whether it be the soldier or the priest that are giving so much to society and sacrificing so much for it, they can only posit that it's some form of mental illness because they would never do anything like that.
And just to finish off, I'm going to leave you with Movie Bob's thoughts on Passion of the Christ.
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