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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

“..at Austin...”

Explains stupid pretty well!


81 posted on 04/28/2018 6:29:20 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: bgill

What we need to do includes:
* Sharing stories like this widely so that parents can put pressure on college administration to quit it.
* Sharing stories like this so donors say “you’re not getting more of my money until you stop this”.
* Getting the word out so that parents stop sending kids to these schools until they return to sanity.
* Having open discussions on whether or not taxpayers should be FUNDING these schools.
Maybe we need to defund them for saying half the population is “toxic” and “poisonous”, inherently bad due to how they were born. Maybe we need to demand the colleges cut 20% from their budgets, and they decide whether to cut administration or programs like this.


82 posted on 04/28/2018 6:40:31 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: ethom

The left always lifts up the abnormal and the perverse. Normal men have mental issues, but people who don ‘t know what sex the are are okay.


83 posted on 04/28/2018 6:44:48 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: ethom
The program is currently without leadership. But not for long...

*Headshake* Let me guess. Any male that would step up to the plate to lead the program would be exhibiting “toxic masculinity” and therefore unfit to lead the program.

84 posted on 04/28/2018 7:16:51 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Paulie

He actually was encouraging people who own businesses in New Jersey to move to Texas, who would then most likely be employing Texans.


85 posted on 04/28/2018 7:22:06 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (We need a consent decree for the FBI like Obama was slapping on all those police agencies.)
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To: ethom

Well hell, there goes the UT FOOTBALL SEASON!


86 posted on 04/28/2018 11:02:02 PM PDT by buffyt (Ding dong the Austin bomberÂ’s dead! HeÂ’s gone where goblins go, below below below below!)
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To: ethom

“I’m a boy”....”That’s sick and causing a crisis - pervert”


87 posted on 04/29/2018 3:35:38 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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Without masculinity in males there should be treatment and training.


88 posted on 04/29/2018 6:29:44 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: smokingfrog

OK. I need a new keyboard now...coffee all over it...


89 posted on 04/29/2018 6:33:39 AM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God. 8)
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To: A strike

UT Austin went the way of Berkeley quite some time go.


90 posted on 04/29/2018 6:51:25 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Kartographer

This is UT in the People’s Republic of Austin.


91 posted on 04/29/2018 6:52:22 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: petitfour

No, they don’t. This is the counseling center at UT Austin, which went the way of Berkeley a long time ago. UT is the butt of jokes in Texas.


92 posted on 04/29/2018 6:55:18 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: ethom

That is crazy!!!!


93 posted on 04/29/2018 12:29:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: ethom
University of Texas to Treat Masculinity as a 'Mental Health' Crisis Issue

Looks like they'll be ordering new tutu uniforms for the longhorn football team.

New requirement to be recruited "gay to play."

94 posted on 04/29/2018 12:38:34 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: VideoDoctor

from the looks of their football team, this policy has been in effect for some time! :)


95 posted on 04/29/2018 12:54:30 PM PDT by ethom
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Have they come up with a program equally sentencing of feminism?


96 posted on 04/29/2018 1:24:41 PM PDT by ully2
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To: ully2

Actual feminism? Yes, the SJW’s punish that too. Fake feminism they have no problem with.


97 posted on 04/29/2018 3:20:27 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Texas Fossil

UT has been playing football like a bunch of sissies for years.


98 posted on 04/30/2018 7:36:06 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: ethom
The school is in the process of hiring a “healthy masculinities coordinator” to run the program,

Most likely successful candidate will either be a sodomite or a "transgender man".

99 posted on 04/30/2018 7:38:32 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Terry Mross

Yes, and a lot more signs of the infiltration are there.


100 posted on 04/30/2018 8:22:14 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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