Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/cmiller-idriss/ More Than A Magazine, A Movement Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:52:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-ms-logo-32x32.jpg Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/cmiller-idriss/ 32 32 Making the Invisible Visible: How Misogyny Is Driving Rising Political Violence https://msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/mass-shooting-men-misogyny-violence-women-man-up-book-excerpt-masculinity/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://msmagazine.com/?p=389213 We have seen a rise in political assassinations and assassination attempts, along with violent extremist attacks that have ticked upward for years. Mass casualty plots in the U.S. have increased by over 2,000 percent since the 1990s, leading to the deaths or grievous injury of thousands of people in shootings at schools, grocery stores, theaters, parades, concerts, houses of worship and more.

In the search for explanations, the public and policy discourse is most often swept up in heated debates about far-left or far-right ideologies.

But the data shows that the biggest and clearest predictor of mass shootings, across ideologies, sits somewhere else: in rising gendered grievances, patriarchal backlash, and the perpetrators’ histories of gender-based violence and misogyny.

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