2022
DOI: 10.1177/1097184x221120664
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Fighting for Masculine Hegemony: Contestation between Alt-Right and White Nationalist Masculinities on Stormfront

Abstract: The alt-right community serves as a gateway into the white nationalist movement. However, more research is needed on how the alt-right’s virulent misogyny interfaces with white nationalist masculinity premised on patriarchal protection of white femininity. This study addresses this question through a qualitative analysis of a white nationalist forum, Stormfront.org, and finds two masculine strategies vying for site dominance. These two gender strategies draw on different movement ideologies, white nationalist … Show more

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“…Proud Boys' group identity is of a Nipster 1 persona, that deploys humor, absurdity, and irony, commonly memes, to facilitate far‐right arguments against the social, cultural, and political status quo, opposing establishment politics, political correctness, immigration, multiculturalism, and feminism (Campbell, 2022; DeCook, 2018; Donovan et al., 2022; Fielitz & Thurston, 2019; Nagle, 2017; Reid et al., 2020; Sienkiewicz & Marx, 2022). Proud Boys male supremacism drives much of their nostalgic, hyper masculine, and misogynistic beliefs that women are inferior to men, and women's mass entry into the workforce, due to feminism, is depriving women from being happy housewives and are cutting in line in front of deserving men and seizing opportunities owed to them (see Blazak, 2022; Campbell, 2022; Hermansson et al., 2020; Hochschild, 2016; Kitts, 2022; Park, 2022; Stern, 2019; Sunderland, 2022). Under the coded language of “western chauvinism,” Proud Boys contend that Western (i.e., white) civilization is superior to all others (e.g., Orthodoxy, Islamic, Sinic, Hindu, etc.)…”
Section: What Are Alt‐right Gangs?mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Proud Boys' group identity is of a Nipster 1 persona, that deploys humor, absurdity, and irony, commonly memes, to facilitate far‐right arguments against the social, cultural, and political status quo, opposing establishment politics, political correctness, immigration, multiculturalism, and feminism (Campbell, 2022; DeCook, 2018; Donovan et al., 2022; Fielitz & Thurston, 2019; Nagle, 2017; Reid et al., 2020; Sienkiewicz & Marx, 2022). Proud Boys male supremacism drives much of their nostalgic, hyper masculine, and misogynistic beliefs that women are inferior to men, and women's mass entry into the workforce, due to feminism, is depriving women from being happy housewives and are cutting in line in front of deserving men and seizing opportunities owed to them (see Blazak, 2022; Campbell, 2022; Hermansson et al., 2020; Hochschild, 2016; Kitts, 2022; Park, 2022; Stern, 2019; Sunderland, 2022). Under the coded language of “western chauvinism,” Proud Boys contend that Western (i.e., white) civilization is superior to all others (e.g., Orthodoxy, Islamic, Sinic, Hindu, etc.)…”
Section: What Are Alt‐right Gangs?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Additionally, a second-degree member is only allowed to masturbate once a month and can only ejaculate in the presence of a consenting woman, with the hopes that this absurd regulation increases a member's testosterone, thereby improving a member's sexual inclinations and ability to fight. Despite no sound science to support such a claim, the overarching goal of this proscription, along with the gang's misogyny of "venerating the housewife," aligns with white supremacist and domestic terrorist David Lane's 14 words, "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" (Kutner, 2020;Michael, 2009a;Park, 2022;Simi & Futrell, 2015;Sunderland, 2022). Also, at the completion of his "cereal beating" a second-degree Proud Boy is considered to be a full-fledged member of the gang.…”
Section: Structure and Resiliency Of Alt-right Gangsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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