1. Little People

Roy Den Hollander, 72, used to be an inconspicuous little guy.

He graduated from George Washington University School of Law in 1985. After obtaining his lawyer's license, he started working for the Russian branch of Kroll, a business transaction risk investigation agency, and married a Russian woman. After the two got married, they came to live in New York, but Dan Holland soon exposed his surly side and began to rashly accuse his wife of having an affair with a Russian underground criminal group without evidence, which eventually led to the two getting involved. in an extremely violent and chaotic divorce proceedings.

This mess of failed marriage changed the trajectory of his life and further deepened the deep hatred for women that he had been lingering in his mind from the beginning. He once confessed: "Under the laws now fabricated by the feminist lobby, criminally inclined foreign women can become permanent residents and eventually U.S. citizens simply by saying that their American husbands have abused them, and these women lie and commit crimes. There is no problem with committing crimes of moral turpitude, or using fraud and perjury to gain access to the United States and remain here."

Whether on his personal website or on social media, Dan Holland is a proud "male chauvinist"; he continues to publish his personal attacks on feminism, feminists, and women in general, to great fanfare Carrying out her own public performance art. On his website, he prominently reads in orange font: "It's time for all the good guys to fight for their rights before they lose them."

Since 2007, he has been suing bars and nightclubs that offer "ladies night" services. In order to generate more consumption, bars and nightclubs in many parts of the United States regularly attract female customers by making women pay less than men for drinks. Since there is no specific federal law for this, Dan Holland has waited to sue local nightclubs and bars for "sex discrimination" in New York City several times, claiming that such behavior violates the Fourteenth Amendment "not to be enacted or practiced" Laws Restricting the Privileges or Immunities of Citizens of the United States".

In his view, such discrimination would leave men financially disadvantaged when it comes to attracting women in bars. The lawsuit was quickly rejected by the court and his appeal was dismissed. In a wry and ironic interview with The New Yorker that year, Dan Holland said solemnly: "Feminazi [a term often used to disparage feminists] has infiltrated institutions, and rights It has shifted from boys to girls."

In 2008, Dan Holland sued Columbia University for its insistence that the top Ivy League-affiliated university insisted on offering departments and programs in women's studies, and these academic ideologies became "a bastion of hateful prejudice against men." In his complaint, women's studies "demonize men and elevate women in order to justify discrimination against men based on collective culpability" and "spread prejudice that fosters hostility and distrust of men, resulting in ignorance, False and malicious resulting in massive violations of men's rights". In the same year, he also sued the U.S. federal government, arguing that the Violence Against Women Act, introduced in 1994, also violated the Fourteenth Amendment in his eyes. Both lawsuits were eventually settled.

Well-known comedy stand-up actor Stephen Colbert, nicknamed "Koukoubear" by domestic audiences, interviewed in 2011 while hosting the satirical pseudo-news show "Colbert Report" There are plans again to sue the anti-feminist lawyer at the bar and nightclub. During the "Difference Makers" phase of the show, Colbert recounts Dan Hollander's career as a lawyer with a seemingly serious face but a wryly sarcasm. During the interview, he knew in his heart that he was being teased, his expression remained unchanged, and he continued to denounce feminism and women who called for gender equality, and defined his own goal: until my last dollar, my last Tone; if there is anything after death, I will always fight them.

Dan Holland's 72-year life seems to have been so unremarkable, save for the occasional media and talk show joke. However, after Trump was elected in 2016, the staunch anti-feminist lawyer believed that he had found a political leader he could rely on, and that he would not have to restrain himself since then.

Like Dan Hollander, Trump, in his 70s, scoffs at feminism. The former Miss Universe pageant owner, who has been married three times and has had inappropriate relationships with porn stars and bunny girls, faces 43 charges of sexual harassment, assault and rape so far.

On the eve of the election, Trump nearly lost the election by leaking a high-profile 2005 bragging about his attempt to seduce and sexually assault a female colleague of interviewer Billy Bush.

And in 2018, in an interview with host Piers Morgan, Trump once again claimed that he is by no means a feminist because he "supports women, supports men, and supports everyone."

2. Killing

An avid anti-feminist, Dan Hollander worries about growing age and a terminally ill diagnosis in 2019. When his own life comes to an end, who will continue to take over his own banner, so recklessly and tenaciously against the "feminist Nazis"?

Since 2015, Dan Holland has been suing the U.S. military's Selective Service System because its current draft system is only open to men. The judge in charge of hearing the case is Esther Salas of New Jersey. The daughter of impoverished Cuban immigrants, she grew up with good grades. In 2011, she was appointed a district judge in New Jersey by then-President Barack Obama, and was the first Latino woman to serve as a U.S. magistrate and U.S. district judge in New Jersey.

In 2018, after a lengthy delay, Salas allowed the case to proceed. However, that didn't stop Dan Holland from continuing his bitter hatred of the successful female minority judge. On his personal website, he accused Salas of being an "affirmative support hire" and mused: "Women judges don't bother me as long as they're middle-aged or older black women. They seem to have an interest in life. There is an understanding of how it works, and you won’t be fooled by any lawyer who is holding you back. However, Hispanics are often a problem, and they’re all driven by an inferiority complex.”

A year later, he published a 2,028-page essay on his website, documenting his contempt for all "politically correct" people and things, as well as for politics idolized by traditional masculinity, such as Trump leader. To this end, he has also personally participated in Trump's presidential election as a volunteer, and his words are full of excitement and yearning. When Trump won the election, he cheered and wrote: "There are times when truth and justice prevail." In addition, in his words, he is also full of hatred and rejection of his mother, thinking that She is a "witch", "Nazi" and "a vicious witch". In order to "confront" his mother, he claimed to have kissed and touched female classmates in his class without permission since elementary school.

Such a man who fell into madness finally decided to use the cruelest way to avenge the injustice of the society in his eyes; like too many murderers who were insane and frustrated in life, he decided to start a killing.

Contrary to what ordinary people think, Dan Holland is not a "lonely" anti-feminist lawyer, but his twisted world makes him only see his colleagues in the same field of work as enemies. California-based attorney Marc Angelucci also launched a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the military service registration system, which made Dan Holland jealous. On July 11, he came to California, waited patiently for Angloucci to open the door and shot him at the door.

Eight days later, he arrived at Salas' home in New Jersey, knocked on the door disguised as a courier and waited. Salas' son and husband opened the door, and Dan Holland pulled the trigger without hesitation. Salas' husband, defense attorney Mark Anderi, was seriously injured, while her son, Daniel Anderi, died. Salas, who was in another room, was unharmed.

After this, Dan Holland fled. Hours later, FBI and marshals agents found Dan Holland's body in the Catskills, New York, where he had shot himself. According to information released by the bailiffs later, Dan Holland's list of retaliation included another female judge who had heard his case and two oncologists who told him about the diagnosis of a terminal illness.

3. Who are they?

The moment the surly and female-hostile frustrated man becomes a murderer, all who take him as a joke begin to understand his threat.

Megan Garber, author of The Atlantic Monthly, believes that such a characterization gives Dan Holland too much room to move freely, increasing his exposure while ridiculing and ignoring his ideas. extreme violence and danger. Dan Holland himself has never tried to cover up his violent side: In addition to the various notes on his website, Gabor found an interview he gave in 2013, in which he publicly claimed to be agitating Vigilantes enforce the law and plan to smash bars and nightclubs offering "ladies' nights." In an interview with "Koukouxiong", he also bluntly said that he would use force to prove himself correct in Washington.

Yet, amid the jeers of the media, no one recognized this real crisis of men's rights at the cost of violence through his absurdity of suing the bar. Before Dan Holland, American society had begun to gradually develop the ideas and systems of the male rights movement in organized forms, and established its position as the absolute opposite of feminism and equal treatment of women and men. As these ideas are carried through, the scope of the "Overton Window" (a set of policies that are politically acceptable to the mainstream population over a period of time) is also being stretched and people are slowly normalizing These dangerous ideas -- in the form of treating them as jokes.

Andi Zeisler, editor of Feminist Media, linked Dan Holland's actions to the threats women faced at the same time. Before Trump and many of his supporters trampled on women's rights, public society shrugged off the concerns expressed by many women about their threats. Before the 2016 U.S. election, terms such as "masculinity" and "masculinity" seemed to be the subject of small discussions among sociologists and some progressive writings. When a woman is confronted with a flood of physical threats and harassment, the most common response they receive is "it's fine if you don't go online".

In fact, it is impossible to stop these perpetrators without the Internet: in 1989, before the Internet appeared, a gunman who transformed his mental disorder and failure in life into an extreme dislike of feminism broke into Canada. in two classrooms at the Montreal Institute of Engineering, killing 14 women and then committing suicide.

Roy Dan Holland is increasingly less of a special case. Almost every murder involving a woman or a feminist society, like Dan Holland, has a crazy, lonely, broken heart and self-esteem. They often post tongue-in-cheek remarks online, show this unstoppable desire for revenge and control in their lives, and even frequently regain their self-esteem through harassment and assault. Such examples do not vary by status and class: Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and prominent paedophile financier Jeffery Epstein both More than once in my life I have casually flaunted how I can use my power to play with women.

It is safe to say that the moment he commits the murder, he is no longer a human being, but a practitioner of a dangerous idea, the epitome of a violent system.

4. Violence, Endless

The rise of Trump has also made the alt-right, which is mainly composed of young men, a hot topic in society and is considered to be the root of violent racist movements such as white supremacy and white nationalism. an important moment. But unlike past white supremacy in the form of social engineering, oppressive policies, etc., the new force in this movement is a group of young men who are extremely misogynistic.

Many of them, who refer to themselves as incels (involuntary celibates), like Dan Holland, are often seen as just a kitsch subculture on the Internet. The violent march in 2017 and an indiscriminate killing of women in Toronto in 2018 brought the close relationship between the two to more discussion.

From very early on, the union of these two evil minds was inevitable. Roosh V, a patriarch who "promoted" the concept of PUA on the Internet, a self-media writer who devoted almost all of his writing career to demeaning and objectifying women, has attracted many "alt-right" critics in the process of writing. Followers. The feminism and racial equality that have been promoted since the turn of the twentieth century are for them a blood feud that must be wiped out for these young frustrated white men who blame their failures on multiple factors. A white supremacist who once contributed to Roosh V's website wrote: "The vagina is the perfect representation of the essence of femininity. An empty vessel, a hole, a hole without its own identity. Without a man using his Essence to fill her, she is as useless as an apple rotted on the sidewalk." Another well-known white supremacist, Andrew Anglin, who has repeatedly publicly harassed and intimidated women, wrote on his website. Once wrote: "White men, your greatest enemy is not the Jews, but your women!"

In a society back in which whites were the only constituent race, these people invariably believed that women had only two functions: an obedient housewife, and an attractive sexual partner. In fact, such ideas have a long history in fascism: the old adage "Kinder, Küche, Kirche" (Kinder, Küche, Kirche), once popular in Germany, was further promoted after Hitler's Third Reich came to power. Hitler, who was equally frustrated as a young man, once proudly declared in a speech to the Nazi Women's League that an Aryan woman was to blame for her husband, family, children and house.

In modern times, these hate groups continue their fascist practices under disguise. One of the largest groups to grow is Proud Boys, the men's rights group founded by Vice founder Gavin McInness, and they have been involved in every violent protest since Charlottesville frequently. They adopt a general philosophy of being alive in David Fincher's "Fight Club": turning failures in their own lives into extreme violence to retaliate against society. In their view, violence is the most reasonable way to communicate, and preserving masculinity is the only way to make Western society proud of its traditional values. In 2018, the FBI publicly stated that they did not consider the group to be a terrorist organization, despite repeated public clashes that resulted in maiming.

Like the alt-right, the incel movement is also using the loopholes of social media to cover up its own deformed thinking. Unfortunately, before the violent protests in Charlottesville, too many people acquiesced that this rhetoric was just an acceptable part of the Internet. Today, social media has been kidnapped by this kind of thinking, and amid the ridicule of countless anti-female ideologues and racists, all that remains is the endless, empty rants of activists and journalists about the heads of these companies.

5. What is this?

The violent thinking against women represented by this murder has a strong structural and social nature. For thousands of years, social systems, ethnic groups, nations and governments have been represented by men and only by men. When the feminist movement became a new wave of thought in academia and society, sociologists wanted to give a reasonable definition of such an oppressive state dominated by men. The two most common concepts by far are Hegemonic Masculinity and Toxic Masculinity.

Hegemony is an important crystallization of wisdom of Italian neo-Marxist thinker Gramsci. This concept holds that in the process of winning and grasping power, the ruling class needs to establish and maintain its own order by forming and destroying different social groups, forcibly defining the form and planning scope, thereby establishing a specific standard of "normality". To ensure this, the ruling class will directly deter and punish those who do not conform to or obey the rules.

For hegemonic masculinity, Australian gender studies scholar RW Connell defined the concept many years later and in 2005 as follows: Diversified, male characteristics related to the traditional characteristics of male parts are in the center of society Under the premise, there is a subordination relationship with other characteristics, so that while centralizing and institutionalizing oneself, it marginalizes other ideas and forms authoritative prominence.

Australian sociologist Michael Donaldson argues that because gender structure is indelibly linked to political and social structures, the involuntary nature of the gender system makes hegemonic masculinity the core and particular component of most social formations. part. Courage, inner direction, aggressive form, autonomy, mastery, technical skills, group solidarity, risk-taking, tenacity of body and mind are all portrayed naturally by domineering masculinity in heroic form. These characteristics are presented in the form around heroes: legends, ballads, westerns, thrillers; in books, movies, television, and sporting events, they gradually become concrete individuals and objects of worship.

There are different types of manifestations of this spirit. Australian feminist sociologist Michael Flood argues that the concept of toxic masculinity is also a plausible definition because of the established mindset that boys and men must be aggressive, aggressive, tough, bold and dominant expectations are constantly recognized in this kind of thinking. There are many different situations of microaggression that manifest in our lives, such as the humiliation of "you're like a bitch" that is familiar to all cultures regardless of culture. Unlike hegemonic masculinity, toxic masculinity is tightly defined within the societal and social characteristics of masculinity, and is more generally educative than an academic and heavily defined concept.

Australian criminologist Michael Salter seriously analyzes the "Gamergate" online group violence that caused huge controversy in 2014-15 based on the theories of Cornell and Donaldson. The controversy started, according to Salter, from a failed relationship. After game designer Zoe Quinn broke up with Eron Gjoni, Gioni spread a sinister rumor in game development circles that Quinn's success in the game industry was the source of Because of her improper sexual relationship with game executives. As the snowball grew on a scale and in a premeditated manner, the movement eventually became a massive outcry against women and feminists who had become more visible and more egalitarian in the gaming world.

Since societies around the world have associated technology as a force for progress, Salter sees the default setting of "white, male, middle class and heterosexual" as a major component of the so-called gaming ecosystem - geeks , coupled with the unconventional traits of their other types of masculinity (such as a general lack of physique and extroversion), have coalesced into an ingroup with a common identity that fears the challenges of diverse crowds. This ingroup indicates that women are generally ignorant of technical fields (including gameplay and game design), so they are strongly excluded and have long been labeled as sexual objects. In most top-selling games, the default setting is always aggressive action, which Salter believes is a common trait of hegemonic masculinity.

The group exclusion in the game gate is also applicable in the increasingly collapsed political ecology of the United States. Just two days after Dan Hollander killed the judge's family, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., publicly claimed that she was in a fight with him. After the meeting, Florida Republican Rep. Ted Yoho launched endless verbal attacks and harassment against her, including calling her "a fucking bitch." will not be translated)". After Yoho's casual, superficial apology, the young congresswoman taught the entire Congress an important lesson on July 23.

First of all, she pointed out in her speech that Yoho's unprovoked provocation of her on the premise that she was not doing anything, in addition to humiliating her, put his finger on her face. She then offers a succinct and straightforward definition of the unpleasant experience: "This problem is a culture. It's a culture of impunity, a culture that accepts violence and the language of violence against women. , is a whole power structure that supports this culture.” She had heard too many such humiliations since she was a bartender, and her rebuttal was to give more to her than to remain silent. Young girls and boys are role models for correct gender thinking. The New Yorker magazine critic David Remnick pointed out that a political ecology dominated by a tragic bully president fuels Yoho's despicable behavior on the basis of paranoia and deliberately inciting division. By contrast, Ocasio-Cortez defended the principles and the dignity of countless women, showing what a civilized society should look like.

From Dan Holland, to the alt-right, patriarchal groups, Gamegate, to Trump and Yoho, the confrontation with this dangerous masculinist ideology is hard and vague. In a 2019 guest writer for The Atlantic, Michael Salter reviewed the issue and looked ahead to his concerns. In his eyes, the positioning of toxic masculinity is more ambiguous, because the term was originally created as an antonym to promote the "masculinity" of men. The original definition in the 1980s held that, influenced by second-wave feminism, certain qualities of men were "toxic" and that true masculinity should be combative and warrior-like.

In contrast, Cornell et al., who believe that masculinity is not a single product of relationships and behaviors, although more general, can make this temperament from the factors of class, race, culture, and gender. Group analysis. From among incel culture circles and game gate participants who clearly do not meet this definition, it can be seen that this theory is still more feasible, able to analyze and prevent many men from falling into the endless whirlpool of hatred and violence.

While the data have repeatedly confirmed that boys and men with sexist attitudes are more likely to commit gender-based violence, there is a problem with the "toxic" and "normal" distinction between masculinity that Salter and Cornell both agree: It fails to explain where these sexist attitudes come from, ignoring the realities and all the forces of existing dominant culture of domination.

By focusing on culture, those who oppose toxic masculinity may inadvertently collude with institutions that maintain this temperament. Alcohol industry-funded research would deny the link between alcohol and violence, placing blame on "masculinity" and "drinking culture," bringing to life the liberal feminist argument for toxic masculinity. However, there is strong evidence that, in specific geographic areas, the density of liquor stores increases local rates of domestic violence. Any serious framework to prevent violence against women would address alcohol availability as well as male norms and sexism.

There can be no reasonable solution to this form of masculinity and the various violent incidents and mentalities it produces without the hegemonic ruling structures being acknowledged and challenged.

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