I quite like your new term "masculinism!" Yes, the connections between pederasty, masculinism, and fascism are manifest and manifold. But a handsome twelve-year-old in tight shorts is winner regardless of political affiliation... Fascism is only one way of putting the masculine to political (and aesthetic) work. You make a very good observation that gay liberation buried the links between fascism and the last century's early homophile movements. It's easy for them to do, though, since homosexuals under the Nazis were expressly singled out with the pink triangle they now wear as a badge of honor. The gays were the "wrong kind" of homophile, not masculine enough. I've heard people say the Nazis were all pedos abusing boys right and left, that Hitler was abused as a boy, etc. The attention that is paid to homosexuality of the Nazi era is inevitably laid out along those lines. Fascism was in a sense the last straw for enemies of authoritarianism, "proof" that the masculine authoritarian impulse was utterly toxic. Thinking about BAP (who I haven't read any more of since yesterday) and that sort of Pepe mentality generally, I recall that Slavoj Zizek somewhere made the claim that part of the Nazi "trick" was that, despite all the law and order and rigidity of the system, men were in fact going to be allowed to do anything. It was not all about devotion to the Volk, the Führer, or the Aryan race, but also about the calling out of a primal chaos in which anything goes, however brutal. I think there’s some truth to that, and perhaps the same truth to the BAP mentality. |