Posted on 03/24/2021 7:24:38 AM PDT by karpov
As a lecturer in the humanities I have had the privilege and challenge of moderating discussions of controversial topics, often based on literary texts. Over the past two years, the number of students self-censoring or not speaking when a topic is seen as “not for them” has increased dramatically. Instead, many of them visit during office hours or write in course feedback to express their concerns about their ability to engage in their own education. In most of these cases, these students are male.
During a class on Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, for example, the discussion moved away from its historical context to what The Second Sex means today and what it has done for feminism. I then noticed that the few men in the class stayed silent unless directly called upon. One female student brought up “mansplaining,” after which none of the men participated in the discussion.
As the professor, I invited them to speak. After some awkward silence and hesitation, one male student, a stellar athlete with a less-stellar academic record, who had been “manspreading” and tensely chewing his pencil, broke down and blurted out that he couldn’t help mansplaining.
He knew he shouldn’t do it but felt that others would think he was dumb if he didn’t. He said he was embarrassed about his intelligence, felt insecure, and was afraid of what others—especially other men—would think of him. He apologized and sat there, waiting for judgment.
This was a memorable teaching moment, precisely because I could see the way in which this student’s vulnerability affected everyone, especially the female student who was the most vocal—and most shortsighted—about the issue. The others acknowledged him and admitted that they all experience moments of insecurity.
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I’m waiting for “them” to declare gravity “racist”.......
Utter B.S.
Systemic change of gender relations is toxic, not critical.
And to offer a major in “Testicular Minimization”.
toxic femininity
Remember back in 1968, after the murder of Bobby Kennedy by a Palestinian immigrant, it was decided boys were “too masculine” and needed more “estrogen” to make them “more girly men.”
Not long after overactive boys were given drugs to calm them down.
Embarrassed by his intelligence or lack thereof? If it were his intelligence, I doubt he’d go out of his way to display it.
However on the wrong track I think we are re: sex (including not killing off testosterone with our poisoning of our environment), giving white men the same “grievance” encouragement and reward as all the other classes seems to be moving still further in the wrong direction.
“Toxic masculinity.” “White privilege.” What these slogans mean is that they hate masculinity and Whites. There is no escape from the hate. The very fact of being male or White means that you are the most evil scum of the earth.
And liberalism is a mental illness.
Masculinity is engendered by DNA. So is feminism. All the conditioning, programming, brain-washing, propaganda, hand wringing, revisionism and anything else will not change that. Those who try are fools.
This is exactly why young men are choosing — in droves — not to attend university. And now our military is hurtling headlong down the same disastrous, self-destructive path. I congratulate our new, female-minded overlords.
The correct word is not "toxic".
The correct word is "impossible".
Addressing masculinity in the wake of militant feminazism as espoused by Kate Millett
Of course gravity is racist. It was invented by Sir Isaac Newton, a white man.
Gravity keeps minorities down.....
Gravity keeps minorities down.....
All is going as planned.
Too late. Gravity is ,indeed, racist.
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