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Quotes from Substack Newsletter - Fascism: a disease born of male insecurity — Heather Brooke

born 1970 United Kingdom

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With its idolising of stony-faced ‘strong men’, its fantasies of domination and control, fascism is the ideology of the insecure man. A man who feels - at base - unworthy, unwanted and powerless.

Substack Newsletter - Fascism: a disease born of male insecurity (2024)

Followers of fascism also have their own ‘daddy issues’. Are they drawn to an authoritarian father figure, as replacement for their own? The fascist leader granting a simulacrum of love, acceptance and belonging to men who feel cast out from the fatherly fraternity.

Substack Newsletter - Fascism: a disease born of male insecurity (2024)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Heather Brooke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.