Sermon text: "Living Under Fascism"

Read this and thought it was thought-provoking material. I am sure it will likely generate some discussion here on MANN. :)


Click "Read More..."The one thing I can safely predict will get some people's dander up is the author's listing of features of fascism, with no. 5 being:

5. Rampant Sexism


The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.

Indeed, he's right that under any totalitarian state there will be plenty of compartmentalizing and categorizing in order to manage people en masse without consideration for the justice or rightness of the methodology or the aims. Sexism will be part of that apparatus, no doubt. But he does quite obviously fail to recognize that it's men today who are suffering the most egregiously with the misandrist sexism that permeates our society. He also ignores completely the fact that when fascist banners fly and orders to march troops to battle are given, these troops are also exclusively male (with rare exception) and many motivated by coercion and fear of punishment (ie, death or worse) for failing to obey. Nonetheless despite these obvious failings to be complete, the sermon-as-essay he has written is quite thought-provoking and, IMHO, courageous, even if it is subject to interpretation and disagreement.

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