Yikes ~ I’ve kind of been wearing myself out working on the website redesign and today I’m super tired ~ so not much energy for posting. This segment of my review of chapter 4, “The Cult of Masculinity” from American Fascists by Chris Hedges will be a quickie ~ but to me it’s critical and very personally distressing considering that I spent over 16 years promoting “family values” through our family newspaper. Throughout those years, I had the vague feeling of being used by the pro-family organizations like Focus on the Family, the American Family Association, Family Research Council, etc. I could never quite put my finger on the dissatisfaction I was having with the program ~but reading this portion of Hedges’ book has really clarified what had been bugging me for all those years.