[US Navy guy]

Where to start on this one.

[Bernard]

It would probably be easier if the author put the words to music. Since he's writing in a San Francisco paper, I'm sure there's some show tune he knows that would fit the situation perfectly.

[IronJack]

An article on manliness coming from the San Francisco Chronicle. It's like Jeffrey Dahmer publishing a cookbook.

[Condor51]

"Robert Jensen is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas."

And 'light in the loafers'.

[kinoxi]

No one man created this system, and perhaps none of us, if given a choice, would choose it. But we live our lives in that system, and it deforms men, narrowing our emotional range and depth. It keeps us from the rich connections with others

This is some twisted S*** you've found here. I had to stop reading at this point.I felt my 'emotional range' being narrowed...
:)

[Brilliant]

"Evolve beyond masculinity..." In other words, become a woman.



Do they do that kind of surgery here?

[facedown]

Where to start on this one.

With the author.

[sauropod]

You mean this is not a Millee thread????

I'm shocked!

[Brilliant]

"Of course, if we are going to jettison masculinity, we have to scrap femininity along with it."



Yeah, I'm sure that will go over well.

[Fintan]

Start here. Click on cutie-pie's picture.

[raybbr]

BIO/CV

Robert Jensen is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. At UT, Jensen teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the College of Communication.

In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men's violence. In more recent work, he has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism.

In addition to teaching and research, Jensen writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, and race have appeared in papers around the country. He also is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic domination of the rest of the world.

Jensen is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002); co-author with Gail Dines and Ann Russo of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998); and co-editor with David S. Allen of Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (New York University Press, 1995).

 

Click here for Jensen's listing in the UT Experts Guide.

Click here for Jensen's complete curriculum vitae.

Click here for a recent interview, and an older interview with me from the Austin Chronicle.

Click here for a list of upcoming speaking engagements.

A Michael Moore wannabe.

[sauropod]

I've lost even more respect for Jensen.

What a poofter.

[Mr. Brightside]

Straight men need to evolve beyond masculinity?

Gimme a break!

[magellan]

From the article:

Robert Jensen is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas.

'nuff said.

[sauropod]

We need to get rid of the whole idea of masculinity. It's time to abandon the claim that there are certain psychological or social traits that inherently come with being biologically male. If we can get past that, we have a chance to create a better world for men and women.

And the lion and the lamb shall lay down together in harmony.

Why, we might be able to have Universal Health Care! Just think of the possibilities!

Brings a tear to my eye...

[Pox]

It's true that only women can bear children and breast-feed. That fact likely has some bearing on aspects of men's and women's personalities. But we don't know much about what the effect is, and given the limits of our tools to understand human behavior, it's possible we may never know much.

The author is a blithering idiot who displays the inevitable effects of the ongoing feminist "de-balling of the American Male" campaign. In case anyone hasn't noticed, the related campaign in Europe since the end of WWII has wreaked havoc on the masculinity of the European male population.

This garbage from a professor of journalism at UT? A fine example of what is wrong with our institutes of "higher learning", IMO.

[CindyDawg]

He needs to get out in the real world. Most people don't think too much of manlessness. IMO, this is just an excuse to avoid responsibilities.

[diverteach]

[roaddog727]

"If masculinity is defined as conquest, it means that men will always struggle with each other for dominance."

Dear Butt-boy: It is called survival of the fittest. SO, since you ain't fit, you'll never survive to procreate (thankfully sparing us from another generation of panty-waist pandering).

We humans are derived from hundreds of thousands of generations of kill-or-be-killed dominators. Fact. Anything else is wishful thinking and or hallucination.

So get in touch with reality instead of your (allegedly) male member.

[longtermmemmory]

Support Girly Men wusses! vote Democrat!

Republicans FIRE homosexuals (see Foley)

[Caipirabob]

This liberal article is so insane, so completely unbelievable and idiotic beyond the limitations I would attribute to the left I can only suspect one thing behind it:

ROVE!