Milo Yiannopoulos -- If You Want to Stop Mass Shooting, Try Treating Boys Better

From Milo Yiannopoulos at Breitbart's Big Government via H/T at Ace of Spades HQ:

Provocative piece with some truth in it, but I think it's mostly off the mark. I'll explain why after a quote (but I suggest reading the whole thing).

I might be a raging homo, but I still innately understand the male need to conquer, crush and win. Men need to express that dark, powerful part of themselves, or it can abruptly overflow. If it is suppressed, derided and ridiculed, it can show up without warning and with horrible consequences. That’s why I'm so distressed that heterosexual men are being told, constantly, by the media and even in schools, that what they are is bad. This, I submit, is at least in part what’s driving the recent spate of shootings.

The media trash-talks everything men love: guns, booze, boisterousness, drugs, sex and video games. Economic pressures are relentlessly stripping away male spaces like the traditional pub, where blokes can drink and bond. Social pressures are opening up male-only golf and social clubs to women, destroying what made them precious and essential.
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Masculinity isn't fragile, as a spiteful, sociopathic feminist Twitter hashtag recently claimed. But -- and here’s where some man-hating feminists almost get it right-- it is powerful, and exciting, and it does have a flip-side if not properly respected. At its best, male competitiveness is the driving force behind most of society's progress. We would be nowhere without the patriarchy, from the internet and space travel to the road under your feet and the roof on your house. The same thing that drives mass shooters inspires courage, too.

It is certainly true that masculinity, and the urge to "crush and conquer" Milo mentions, is a driving force in civilization, for good for ill. If this force is not channelled(sic) into useful ends, you get ISIS -- blood, rape, war and fire.

When it's well-channelled(sic), you get guys like Sean Spencer and Chuck [Yeager].

But here's the part where I think Milo goes wrong: Almost all men have this desire to "crush and conquer." It's deep-seeded in men. But the problem is, and the problem has always been, there are some men who are ineffectual -- losers, in the vernacular; Failed Men, men who have failed to really satisfy their sense of what a man is -- and thus are always frustrated in their primeval urges to "crush and conquer."

And radical feminism doesn't really have anything at all to do with that. Someone who wishes to be the ultimate winner, but is more like a sad loser, is going to have some very tender psychological wounds due to that fact.

I agree with Milo partly and Ace partly. Alpha Men have an instinctual urge to "crush and conquer" and push the limits, a la Chuck Yeager, Gordon Cooper, Larry Vickers, and Felix Baumgartner. Just as there will always be the Beta nerds, who can't do, but create the technology to make it possible, like the NASA engineers, who figured out how to make a square peg fit in a round hole, 250,000 miles from Earth during the Apollo 13 mission.



There is a 3rd group, however, who are the "Failed Men of society" referred to by Ace, who are the problem, "whether they're petty criminals (usually of the crueler type) or wife-beaters, child-abandoners, or even child molesters." They are the ones who turn into mass shooters.