A Volatile Young Man, Humiliation and a Gun

Bob Herbert writes: "Dr. James Gilligan, who has spent many years studying violence as a prison psychiatrist in Massachusetts, as a professor at Harvard and now at NYU, believes that some debilitating combination of misogyny and homophobia is a 'central component' in much, if not most, of the worst forms of violence in this country.... In a culture that is relentless in equating violence with masculinity, 'It is tremendously tempting,' said Dr. Gilligan, 'to use violence as a means of trying to shore up one's sense of masculine self-esteem.'"

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