the results of the past thirty years where the education system has treated boys like defective girls...
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.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tgcA8WUK1qM
Nothing but psychobabble politically correct indoctrination and is nothing but crap that the American taxpayer is paying for.
According to political correctness women are the equal of men in all categories including physical abilites and strength. They are not. The have abilities that are equal to men in some categories, inferior to men in some categories and superior to men in some categories. That is just the way it is and thank god they are different. Life would be dull if they were like men.
ps
Do you want your soldier to be politically correct and sensitive about his masculinity or do you want a gung ho bad ass to kill your enemies. I opt for gung ho.
This insanity has to stop.
No, this is UT and Austin. Texas doesn’t recognize that bastion of liberals and freaks.
I believe a certain General told that to a Panzer group Commander one time at Bastigone. Gotta love it. “NUTS”. When asked “ is that a positiven or a negativan”. He was informed “it’s strictly negative”. God bless the 101nd & the 82nd.
They are insane.
The boys are already Ritalin treated in grade school, probably steril and made to comply with the Girly Rules of Universities all over the nation.
It is too dangerous for words. B@$+@^d$ own our kids.
UT should be honest in their recruiting materials then.
“We have no interest in helping you become successful.”
Go Aggies! We’ll always have REAL MEN and UT can keep their faggie students.
I agree.
That certainly applies to their football team.
Insanity.
My pastor is an Aggie. I suspect we will get a commentary on Sunday.
the results of the past thirty years where the education system has treated boys like defective girls...
LOL
Ouch!
It is my understanding that a new Department head for the School of SISSYFICATION has been hired. Ms. Brucelee Jenner will head the department. Ms. Brucelee has scheduled a guest speaker for the schools groundbreaking - Mr James Comey - who will explain to us what it is like to “sissy-up” as he weasels and snakes his way through TV interviews blaming everyone else for his dishonesty. Way to go UT!!!!
‘Treating masculinity as if it were a mental health crisis’
I’m waiting with bated breath for a program treating ‘femininity’ as a mental health crisis...
My Pastor isn’t an Aggie but there are tons in the congregation. Every time he mentions A&M, the congregation goes “Whoop”! It’s a riot.
They shouldn’t scrap the football team, just start letting women join. That should be fun.
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