Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“I can’t stop thinking about this video of an ICE agent violently shoving a crying wife to the ground. … Here’s another video. In this one, an ICE agent slams a 79-year-old American business owner to the ground. For trying to show his workers’ paperwork, they broke his ribs and gave him head trauma. Here’s a group of (masked, of course) ICE agents running after a guy on a bicycle because he said ‘fuck Trump.’ Here’s a journalist leaving in a neck brace after ICE agents pushed him to the ground for trying to cover proceedings at an immigration court in New York City. I see all this and I think about John Wayne. Who, if I remember correctly, became a symbol of American masculinity for saving endangered women on-screen, not shoving them to the ground for crying too close to him.” (10/01/25)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/ice-agents-arent-masculine-theyre