Posted on 04/28/2018 2:32:12 PM PDT by ethom
The Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin recently launched a new program to help male students “take control over their gender identity and develop a healthy sense of masculinity.”
Treating masculinity as if it were a mental health crisis, “MasculinUT” is organized by the school’s counseling staff and most recently organized a poster series encouraging students to develop a “healthy model of masculinity.”
The program is predicated on a critique of so-called “restrictive masculinity.” Men, the program argues, suffer when they are told to “act like a man” or when they are encouraged to fulfill traditional gender roles, such as being “successful” or “the breadwinner.”
Though you might enjoy “taking care of people” or being “active,” MasculinUT warns that many of these attributes are actually dangerous, claiming that “traditional ideas of masculinity place men into rigid (or restrictive) boxes [which]... prevent them from developing their emotional maturity.”
“If you are a male student at UT reading this right now, we hope that learning about this helps you not to feel guilty about having participated in these definitions of masculinity, and instead feel empowered to break the cycle!” the program offers.
The program is currently without leadership, but not for long. The school is in the process of hiring a “healthy masculinities coordinator” to run the program, and a school official tells PJ Media that some hopeful hirees are interviewing for the position later this week.
While many schools now have similar programs, this appears to be the first run directly out of a Counseling and Mental Health Center. Though the school seems to justify this by claiming that masculinity can cause men to lash out at other people and themselves, the school did not respond to a request for comment to clarify.
There is no evidence that masculinity itself contributes to violence. Universities that run similar programs, such as UNC-Chapel Hill and Northwestern, have admitted that their programming isn’t supported by any evidence.
Paging Dr. Jordan Peterson....
Every male on that campus should skip classes until this is reversed, and a massive public apology is made.
Usually programs like this are sponsored by people who lack masculinity.
University of TEXAS discouraging men to ‘act like a man’ !
Who’da thunk ?!?
Aaaahh,just have them go to a few hockey games.
(Go,Bruins.)
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The war on balls... unless of course they come from a middle-eastern hellhole or latin america.
This is Texas? WTH?
“Break the cycle!”. Nature has ruled for 4 billion years, and we’ve had enough. We declare war!
I think a little teticular fortitude is in order here. You can take the neck out of red but you can’t take the red out of redneck. This really makes me smile.
I’m starting to wonder about Texas.
A day or so ago I read that Governor Abbott is actually encouraging those fleeing NJ to move there. The good Governor may come to rue the day he said that.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
What else are we supposed to encourage in our children? Mediocrity? Failure? Aimless sloth?
Oh go a pair!
Hey. I got my masculinity right HERE. GFY counseling center.
I’m glad my son is going to Texas A&M!
I’m sure you’ll find the entire staff full of faggots and transgender freaks.
I know right? LOL but it’s in Austin. You know: the bastard child of Texas that real Texans are ashamed of.
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