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Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence
Random School Shootings, 1982-2001
Michael S. Kimmel
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Matthew Mahler
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Since 1982, there have been 28 cases of random school shootings in American high schools and middle schools. The authors find (a) that the shootings were not a national problem but a series of local problems that occurred in "red states" or counties (places that voted Republican in the 2000 election); (b) that most of the boys who opened fire were mercilessly and routinely teased and bullied and that their violence was retaliatory against the threats to manhood; (c) that White boys in particular might be more likely than African American boys to randomly open fire; and (d) that the specific content of the teasing and bullying is homophobia. A link between adolescent masculinity, homophobia, and violence is proposed. Finally, the authors offer a few possible explanations as to how most boys who are teased and bullied achieve the psychological resilience that enables them to weather adolescence without recourse to random school violence.
Key Words: masculinity • homophobia • violence • school shootings • adolescence
American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 46, No. 10,
1439-1458 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0002764203046010010
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