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 schools 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 isnt supported by any evidence.
Nuts!
The men of Texas must like this sort of thing.
Tell an eighteen year old walking woody to ignore the girls. Duh? Its why us old fathers met the daughters boyfriends. We used to be eighteen. This is lame to the nth degree.
I saw many of those bumper stickers when I attended Texas A&M. Steers and Queers, no place but TU.
I don’t understand (old age you know!) but is UT fostering and promoting homosexuality, transgenderism and those other odd life styles???
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
If UT is worried about masculinity they should scrap the football program.
Vote with your pocketbooks, folks.
Stop attending and stop paying tuition.
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.
Muslim men to be exempted from this course...........
Absolutely.
You got that right Hoss.
About par for T-sips
mental cases ping
Just FYI the link to “Regurgitating the Apple” is broken.
UT is in Austin. Its the Berkley of Texas.
Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals "Think" Evan Sayet - The Heritage Foundation
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.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.