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January 2, 2005
The 'Wimp Factor': Leftist Psychologist Says
Conservative Men Are 'Femiphobic'
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Do conservative men come to their political
beliefs because they are afraid of women? Stephen Ducat, author
of
The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of
Anxious Masculinity, believes that male "femiphobia" is
the cause of the right's ascendance among American men. In his
view, such phenomena as the Bush administration (which he calls
"the most sociopathic American administration in my lifetime"),
Christian fundamentalism and right-wing U.S. policy all spring
from an American "hyper-masculinity."
Dave Ford of the San Francisco Chronicle
describes Ducat's theory as follows:
"Men with the extreme type of masculinity
afraid of characteristics traditionally considered feminine
-- self-reflection, attunement to others, appreciation for human
interrelatedness -- may become sociopaths: those possessed of
a guilt-free capacity to hurt others for personal gain....In
their most fundamental iterations, they eschew all forms of
intellectual, political and personal complexity, and show a
fear of all things perceived as feminine -- including women
and gay men -- that might seem comical were it not so dangerous."
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