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America Goes to War to Restore Its Manhood

By AAN Staff
march 28, 2003  01:04 pm
America Goes to War to Restore Its Manhood
The post-Vietnam myths of the spitting woman and the heroic POW are part of a strange psychology empowering America's "Support Our Troops" rallies. These myths of emasculated males regaining their manhood, which were even told by defeated German soldiers after World War I, reflect the nation's lost potency. Local Planet Weekly Editor Tom Grant examines how this need to revive America's challenged manhood has become a Freudian underpinning of pro-war politics.
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