Vegas-era machismo defeated the androgynous gender-utopian sixties male ideal

Evidence

Violent machismo, linked to a fear and loathing of women, is a recurring motif, an integral part of this ironic search for the American Dream. This machismo is a legacy of one mode of sixties masculinity, that of the Hell’s Angels Thompson was so deeply involved with, and of the violent, hard-line Marxist-Leninist wing of New Left radicalism. The emergence of this machismo as a primary mode of postmodern masculinity largely defeated the gentle, androgynous, long-haired, genderutopian male mode that was one dominant style of sixties masculinity, as I discuss in chapter 5. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 341

Categorization

• CANDY: The genealogy mapping violent machismo from Hell’s Angels AND hard-line Marxist-Leninist radicals onto postmodern masculinity is a strikingly tweetable compression.
• XREF: connects to: Sexual liberalization in consumer society can function repressively, not liberatory — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 159; Sixties male texts commodified women yet produced proto-feminist representations — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 276; Sixties egalitarian communes seeded postmodern authoritarian fundamentalisms — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 543

Broader Connections

• Sixties egalitarian communes seeded postmodern authoritarian fundamentalisms #expands (0.73) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 543