It is a universal observation, wherever women fight against sexism and
patriarchy, wherever women fight for their emancipation, wherever womenstand up, demonstrate against rape, the crimes of which they are the
systemic victims, they find on their path men who, most often through
violence, remind them that the system of male domination is not ready to
give up its privileges. ---- Seven years after the start of the #MeToo
wave, all over the world many young men "fear for their dominant status
and invest in spaces of radicalization". While it is at the origin of
several mass killings and is rife on social networks through
cyberbullying and in the private sphere through violence and crimes,
masculinism, although named, struggles to be correctly identified for
what it is. Stéphanie Lamy offers us a definition of masculinism that
does not fail to take into account the legitimization of violence as a
founding principle. Masculinism is "a set of ideological identity
offers, constructed, disseminated and conducted within various
radicalization environments (on/off line), which advocate violence in
all its forms, in order to maintain, or even strengthen, the domination
of men over women and gender minorities".
After recalling that the "war on terror", instrumentalized after
September 11 to "reinforce existing oppressions in terms of gender, race
and class", prevents mass masculinist crimes from being classified as
terrorist, the author provides an overview of the different masculinist
groups, their economic ecology and their supporters. Her aim is
pragmatic, to describe in order to understand, to understand in order to
"know the paths of radicalization and the factors of passage to action
in order to combat and avoid this radicalization".
But fighting "male identity extremism" will not happen without taking
into account the words and perspectives of victims, women and gender
minorities, so that one day we can finally say "Ni Una Menos" (not one
less).
David (UCL Savoies)
Book: Stéphanie Lamy La Terreur masculiniste, Éditions du Détour, 2024,
192 pages, 18.90 euros
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Stephanie-Lamy-La-Terreur-masculiniste
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