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Sociologist @ UC Santa Barbara. Editor of Men and Masculinities (Sage journal) and Exploring Masculinities (Oxford UP). Coauthor of Gender: In World Perspective, 5e (Polity). he/him Also: @[email protected]

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I think Reczek is right: estrangement is happening more now because the attitudes of children have changed. That doesn't mean children are the problem, even though that's what the story says.

Changing expectations of family relationships "There is a culture clash happening right now between the meaning and dynamics of family," says Rin Reczek, a sociologist at Ohio State University and author of "Families We Lose: A New Explanation for Family Estrangement®" The parents of adult children grew up in a culture of "compulsory kinship," she says. Families were supposed to be forever. Even when there were problems, adult children were expected to stay. This idea is now increasingly challenged by a notion Reczek calls "democratized kinship"— the idea that maintaining family ties depends on their quality. Reczek's research found that people rely on accountability and growth, intentional connection, mutual respect and emotional safety to remain in a relationship. "Think about how people started to think differently about marriage in the mid-20th century, that you could get out of it," Reczek says. "That is getting pushed out into other family relationships now."
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This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵

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What political work is done when a president posts himself as Superman?

Trump’s AI memes turn dissent into disorder and domination into leadership. Tristan Bridges and James Messerschmidt show how humor makes autocratic power feel ordinary.

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AI-generated three-panel image showing Donald Trump wearing a gold crown and oxygen mask while piloting a fighter jet. The jet flies over a city and releases a stream of brown material onto a crowd of protesters below.
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What if biology textbooks teach gender inequality through flowers?

Pollen competes, penetrates, and succeeds. Female plant parts wait and nurture. Shuster, Wonderlin, and Masani show how cultural myths about gender become scientific “facts.”

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Opening page of the Contexts article “How Biology Textbooks Reflect Gender Inequality and Myth” by Stef M. Shuster, Nicole Wonderlin, and Shahnaz Masani. Above the orange title is a close-up photograph of a pale pink flower with vivid pink stamens against a soft green background.
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LGBTQ+ People’s Views of the Police: Friend or Foe?

Stefan Vogler and Valerie Jenness find that LGBTQ+ respondents are more likely than non-LGBTQ+ respondents to see police as a foe, but this varies across gender identity and sexuality.

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We suggest that it's tempting to dismiss these memes as jokes, but that the humor is how they work. They give supporters in-group pleasure and a sense of strength and vindication, while the people they target fear for their safety. The project isn't new, but the technology, scale, and speed are.

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We analyze three memes shared by Trump on social media. Each borrows from different bits of pop culture, but we argue that they all do the same work. They endeavor to make dominating, autocratic masculinity feel modern, exciting, funny, and natural. And they aren't racially neutral.

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The potential political force of these new images doesn't depend on anyone believing they're real. We argue that it depends on inviting viewers to imagine the fantasy as politically meaningful, and maybe achievable.

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Lincoln with an ax. Roosevelt with safari trophies. Reagan with a chainsaw. W. Bush in a flight suit. These images were staged, but a real body always had to be there. AI images don't need one. They make bodies free of age, gravity, time, or biology.

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It's the last day to comment on the Department of Education's proposed accreditation changes (until 11:59). This is a continuation of the administration's attempts to exert political control over univerities. Please take a minute to comment. The @alliancehighered.bsky.social has templates here:

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