The mere fact that Harper's Bazaar would feature an article on the topic of toxic masculinity tells you the degree to which the female mindset in America is changing. Even the fashion industry is concerned about toxic masculinity. Oh yes. The Trump male posse can descend on us -- throwing stink bombs and calling us libtards -- but the facts are the facts in their non-factual universe. The jigs up, gentlemen.

When Trump was elected, Mr. Brexit Nigel Farage proclaimed: "The alpha males are back." That may be so, but large numbers of alpha males -- are the very definition of toxic masculinity -- and it's a masculinity that kills, no matter how the alt-right dresses it up.

More than other countries in the developed world, the American culture worships men with guns. They are conquerors of 'weaker men' and women are eager to have sex with them. In reality, men who commit mass shootings do not have the respect of the larger culture, but their "catastrophic sense of male entitlement" gives them admiration in their own equally toxic communities.

Of all the mass shootings since 1982, only three have been committed by women. While women comprise about 50 percent of the victims of mass shootings, female mass killers are “so rare that it just hasn’t been studied,” according to James Garbarino, a psychologist at Loyola University Chicago.

Almost 60 percent of victims of mass shootings are family members, dead at the hands of a man who is showing them who's boss. Automatic assault rifles are a great assist to a deranged male ego seeking to show his friends and family -- and the public at large -- that he will command their full attention in fear, if admiration is not available.

Alt-right men don't even take responsibility for their actions. Jordan Jereb, the leader of a white nationalist hate group responded to the Nikolas Cruz massacre, saying, “There’s a very real sense of feminism being a cancer. That could’ve played into what he did.”

Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon is quoted in the new, updated paperback version of Bloomberg writer Josh Green's 'Devil's Bargain' as saying the "anti-patriarchy movement" might "undo ten-thousand years of recorded history."

“You watch. The time has come. Women are gonna take charge of society,” Bannon said, according to Green. “And they couldn’t juxtapose a better villain than Trump. He is the patriarch. This is a definitional moment in the culture. It’ll never be the same going forward.”

The Cut dismisses Bannon's words, but many of us fear them. Dead bodies lying strewn in Florida, Texas, Las Vegas all across America confirm that primarily white men -- especially in large mass killings -- are in revolt.

Do not fear women wearing black dresses at the Golden Globes, as Bannon argues. Feminism is not the threat, as American women are not killers. Instead, beware of men carrying assault rifles in public, because THEY are the ones who are showing us just who is the BOSS! ~ Anne

On Pence's trip to Israel, women journalists like Andrea Mitchell were constantly required to stand behind the male journalists. No exceptions. Netanyahu's security detail made sure that women towed the imaginary line. At the Western Wall, women journalists were on the other side of a fence, peering in. The image is taken by a woman journalist, who basically seeks the backs of men.

Tal Schneider, a prominent Israeli journalist, tweeted: “Separation at the Western Wall. The women stuck in isolation and cannot photograph, work. Women journalists are second-class citizens. The American women photographers are frantically yelling at the representatives of the White House. #PenceFence reported The Washington Post.

Reporter Noga Tarnopolsky called the situation “a disgrace.”

“I have covered many visits; this was an aberrant first,” she tweeted.

The “Pence Fence” fiasco happened the day after a Finnish female journalist in Israel was reportedly strip searched and told to remove her bra during a security check. The journalist is of Palestinian descent. According to reports, she refused to comply and was barred from visiting the prime minister’s office to cover Pence’s arrival on Monday.

Haaretz reports that the "last-minute public relations black eye" was avoidable. "It seemed that the American embassy in Israel, which set up the press arrangements in cooperation with the rabbinical authorities at the Wall had paid little attention to the grumbling of female journalists back in May, when U.S. President Donald Trump and his family visited the wall. During that visit, too, women and men, including journalists, were completely separated, the women restricted behind what is known as a “mechitza” - a barrier separating the sexes, intended to allow each gender to focus on praying undistracted."

When the Trump contingent visited the Western Wall, the group included Orthodox Jews Jared Kushner and Ivanka and the custom of separation was required. However, writes Haaretz, there was no need to separate the women journalists during the Mike Pence visit because the entire site had been cleared for the VIP visitors. ". . . while Karen and Mike Pence may be religious and used the time at the Wall to pray - there are no strictures on Evangelical Christians requiring them to pray only in the company of their own sex.

It's pure politics, writes Haaretz, citing the ongoing battle between ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Jewish feminist group "Women of the Wall," together with the Reform and Conservative movements, locked in an ongoing battle over policy and procedures at the Western Wall.

We'll see if women are blotted out of the Israeli photos, as Hillary Clinton was from the US situation room the night Bin Laden died. Now THAT was fake news!!! Then again, if they are always behind the men -- on the entire Israeli trip -- then a mere crop takes women out of the scene. "

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