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Alice Bolin _ Dead Girls: Essays on
Violent men's grievances are born out of a conviction of their personal righteousness and innocence: they are never the instigators; they are only righting what has been done to them. This shit-eating innocence is crucial to the fantasy of American masculinity, a bizarre collection of expectations and tropes "so paralytically infantile," as James Baldwin writes in "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood," "that it is virtually forbidden-as an unpatriotic act-that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.
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