32 Senseless Deaths: A Chance for Empathy, Change of Heart, and Change of Course
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/18/593/
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A Volatile Young Man, Humiliation and a Gun
Bob Herbert writes: "Dr. James Gilligan, who has spent many years studying violence as a prison psychiatrist in Massachusetts, as a professor at Harvard and now at NYU, believes that some debilitating combination of misogyny and homophobia is a 'central component' in much, if not most, of the worst forms of violence in this country.... In a culture that is relentless in equating violence with masculinity, 'It is tremendously tempting,' said Dr. Gilligan, 'to use violence as a means of trying to shore up one's sense of masculine self-esteem.'"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041907P.shtml
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A Hierarchy of Death
By Roy Greenslade
Why do 32 deaths in Virginia receive blanket coverage while nearly 200 fatalities in Iraq are barely reported?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17567.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert
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A Volatile Young Man, Humiliation and a Gun
Bob Herbert writes: "Dr. James Gilligan, who has spent many years studying violence as a prison psychiatrist in Massachusetts, as a professor at Harvard and now at NYU, believes that some debilitating combination of misogyny and homophobia is a 'central component' in much, if not most, of the worst forms of violence in this country.... In a culture that is relentless in equating violence with masculinity, 'It is tremendously tempting,' said Dr. Gilligan, 'to use violence as a means of trying to shore up one's sense of masculine self-esteem.'"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041907P.shtml
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A Hierarchy of Death
By Roy Greenslade
Why do 32 deaths in Virginia receive blanket coverage while nearly 200 fatalities in Iraq are barely reported?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17567.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert
rudkla - 19. Apr, 11:06
