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.
‘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.’
inevitable when the keys to education complex is handed with impunity to loony females...
“The men of Texas” know that UT sucks.
Headshake.
https://cmhc.utexas.edu/groups.html
Link takes you to a list of all the support groups. Not one for white males.
Fantastic list. Thanks for compiling and sharing it.
Now let’s list some defenses against the anti-male crowd.
Patrick J. Buchanan The War Against Boys.
Anne and Bill Moir Why Men Don’t Iron
Patricia Cayo Sexton the Feminized Male (about boys in school classes where females are supreme)
Christina Hoff Sommers War Against Boys.
Help us, FReepers. More titles you know about? Thanks.
May God save us!
WJR am radio (conservative) host when guest talked about women making men shave everywhere or face shaming:
NOW WE AREN’T ALLOWED TO BE A MAN ANY MORE??!!
Interesting article, thanks for the link.
The article did characterize Hillary Clinton as being misguided but fundamentally decent and concerned about people. I wonder if the author would still characterize her in that fashion knowing what we do today about her. Although she was pretty corrupt back then...perhaps fewer people knew about her corruption then.
Isn’t that a form of “conversion therapy”?
UT Barf Alert!
First: Many women are fully qualified and would win a job or promotion based fully on merits alone. FReeper women are that way. However——We males are supposed to pretend the affirmative action (less qualified) woman is just fine (and when Michigan elected Jennifer Granholm we had to say, uh, ahem, uh, er, she’s just great and fully qualified to be a great governor!
She was the worst in history and we barely survived.
Do young men today kiss up and say women who are inferior are just fine and just perfectly qualified, or do they actually BELIEVE this now? My Boomer age men had to fake it and grit our teeth and lose jobs to step out of the way for unqualified women. We knew it was wrong but couldn’t help it. We would face destruction if we said the truth out loud. Boys couldn’t excel or it would make girls look inferior. Boys couldn’t be confident and win at something or they would be called sexist. Police forces, firefighters,airline pilots and many more are now based on quotas of phony female acceptability when dozens of men were set aside so they could win the jobs. A shame.
This makes total sense. Austin, the San Francisco of Texas.
Liberalism, like Islam, should be scrubbed from the face of the entire earth.
Both of these bassturds are totally insane.
We can no longer co-exist with these maniacs....it’s coming.
Yes. LGBQWERTY is perfectly normal and healthy.
And easy to type.
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Masculinity is a mental health issue and transgender, gay and lesbian isn’t! what a frickin world we live in today
Inmates running the asylum.
Should we then call male graduates of UT “soy boys”?
Heck, all you have to do is look at the UT football teams for the past few years and see the result ...
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