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University of Texas to Treat Masculinity as a 'Mental Health' Crisis Issue
PJ Media ^ | APRIL 27, 2018 | BY TONI AIRAKSINEN

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: education; homosexualagenda; malpractice; masculinity; mentalillness; quackdoctors; quacks; texas; universityoftexas
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To: ethom

Nuts!


21 posted on 04/28/2018 2:51:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: ethom

The men of Texas must like this sort of thing.


22 posted on 04/28/2018 2:51:48 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: M.K. Borders

Tell an eighteen year old walking woody to ignore the girls. Duh? It’s why us old fathers met the daughter’s boyfriends. We used to be eighteen. This is lame to the nth degree.


23 posted on 04/28/2018 2:52:19 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry. Pray you never have to use it. Be safe.)
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To: Vaquero
Get a grip Pard. Oh never mind 😜
24 posted on 04/28/2018 2:56:18 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry. Pray you never have to use it. Be safe.)
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To: BenLurkin

I saw many of those bumper stickers when I attended Texas A&M. Steers and Queers, no place but TU.


25 posted on 04/28/2018 2:58:27 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: ethom

I don’t understand (old age you know!) but is UT fostering and promoting homosexuality, transgenderism and those other odd life styles???


26 posted on 04/28/2018 2:58:44 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: ethom

barrak hussein bin soetoro promised to transform amerikka.

breaking down the family unit has been going on for quite a while.

take guns from veterans undergoing PTSD treatment and add masculinity as a mental health disorder and you’ve got today’s society transformed in his vision


27 posted on 04/28/2018 2:59:59 PM PDT by thinden
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To: ethom

If UT is worried about masculinity they should scrap the football program.


28 posted on 04/28/2018 3:02:11 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: ethom

Vote with your pocketbooks, folks.
Stop attending and stop paying tuition.


29 posted on 04/28/2018 3:02:44 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. Mr Trump, we've got your six.)
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To: ethom
Self-contradictory nonsense:

Though you might enjoy “taking care of people” or being “active,” MasculinUT warns that many of these attributes are actually dangerous... “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

So the UT males were feeling guilty about enjoying being active, taking care of people, and being successful???? Puh-leeeeeze!!! This tripe is HOPING to make men feel guilty about being successful, nothing more.

30 posted on 04/28/2018 3:02:49 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: ethom

Muslim men to be exempted from this course...........


31 posted on 04/28/2018 3:05:26 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people)
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To: ethom
Masculinity is a mental disorder, and yet this is perfectly normal:


32 posted on 04/28/2018 3:05:59 PM PDT by Hadean
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To: max americana

Absolutely.


33 posted on 04/28/2018 3:06:38 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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To: Equine1952

You got that right Hoss.


34 posted on 04/28/2018 3:06:46 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: ethom

About par for T-sips


35 posted on 04/28/2018 3:09:14 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

mental cases ping


36 posted on 04/28/2018 3:09:25 PM PDT by bitt (We do not need the electric chair - we need electric bleachers!)
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To: TigersEye

Just FYI the link to “Regurgitating the Apple” is broken.


37 posted on 04/28/2018 3:10:37 PM PDT by Little Pig
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To: A strike

UT is in Austin. It’s the Berkley of Texas.


38 posted on 04/28/2018 3:13:09 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Little Pig
Thank you! I haven't checked those links in a long time.

Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals "Think" Evan Sayet - The Heritage Foundation

39 posted on 04/28/2018 3:19:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: ethom
Men, the program argues, suffer when they are told to “act like a man”

So what do they say?

To be a real man you must act like a girl?

More libtard claptrap.

Any male who gets involved in this insanity should have to exchange his athletic supporter for a training bra.


40 posted on 04/28/2018 3:19:32 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The art of government is to take money from one to give to another - Voltaire)
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