{"id":171,"date":"2025-09-02T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=171"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:54:14","slug":"class-discussion-thoughts-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Class Discussion Thoughts (9\/2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In class, we discussed the divisive altercation between Himmelstoss and some of the soldiers, and I had a thought I wasn\u2019t able to share. Beyond the soldiers\u2019 loss of humanity through training and other hardships, I saw their actions as a translation of masculinity. Within the context of the war, these young men are persuaded to enlist for many reasons, but the predominant one is the idea of \u201cbeing a man\u201d and the push for \u201cmasculine men.\u201d I imagined that Himmelstoss\u2019 treatment of the soldiers left many of them feeling emasculated, and their retaliation became almost a reclamation of the masculinity they had been <em>promised<\/em> for enlisting. This is, of course, just a half-formed thought, but I found it interesting to connect back to our discourse on masculinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class, we discussed the divisive altercation between Himmelstoss and some of the soldiers, and I had a thought I wasn\u2019t able to share. Beyond the soldiers\u2019 loss of humanity through training and other hardships, I saw their actions as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}