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What’s a manbassador? Graduating MBA student shows the way
UC Berkeley News ^ | May 19, 2017 | By Gretchen Kell

Posted on 05/20/2017 6:46:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Patrick Ford, who graduates from UC Berkeley today with an MBA, is a standout at the Haas School of Business. Berkeley News recently talked with Ford about the origin of his mission, “Guy Talk” and other manbassador activities at Berkeley-Haas and post-graduation plans.

What is a manbassador, and where did the name and idea come from?

Manbassador is a more memorable name for the universal term “male ally.” A male ally is a man who works to end gender discrimination by supporting and being an advocate for women.

I started noticing and caring about gender equity as an undergrad. Some female colleagues pointed out that I tended to dominate conversations and speak over them. I felt pretty defensive at first: Why do I have to change? Why can’t they just be more like me? But I came to realize that my unconscious bias and actions can unintentionally disempower people, and that making space for other voices beyond my own results in better ideas and happier colleagues.

How do you account for the popularity of the group, with a third of the male MBA students signing on?

I don’t think any men getting their MBAs at Berkeley believe sexism is acceptable. The learning edge for me and my fellow male classmates has to do with better understanding our own unconscious biases, and how those play out in personal and professional settings.

There’s a growing awareness of how significantly unconscious bias affects our behavior — even men with good intentions can have a negative impact. Many men are drawn toward wanting to better support their female friends, girlfriends, wives and daughters when they’re no longer blind to how women often have to deal with unfair situations. They are looking for tools, and the aim of the manbassador program is to provide them.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.berkeley.edu ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: berkeley; eunuch; freakshow; genderwars; leftismoncampus; socialjustice; warriors
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1 posted on 05/20/2017 6:46:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The whole thing sounds like a clever ploy to get laid on campus.


2 posted on 05/20/2017 6:49:26 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So whose purse has his ‘nards?


3 posted on 05/20/2017 6:49:32 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: Farmer Dean

Cuckadoodle-doo.


4 posted on 05/20/2017 6:52:26 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: All

Judging from what is going on in American colleges and universities and the “students” going through them, in fifteen years, this country will be gone....


5 posted on 05/20/2017 6:52:57 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another instance where in reality, the label is the opposite of it’s real definition.


6 posted on 05/20/2017 6:55:15 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Farmer Dean

Beat me to it!


7 posted on 05/20/2017 7:00:37 AM PDT by CMSMC
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To: lee martell

Not new.. I’ve heard other terms for this behavior.


8 posted on 05/20/2017 7:01:54 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: JBW1949

in fifteen years, this country will be gone....

***********

We are witnessing seismic cultural and demographic shifts in the country that do not bode well for our future.


9 posted on 05/20/2017 7:03:43 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

UC Berkeley.


10 posted on 05/20/2017 7:04:38 AM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Puke!


11 posted on 05/20/2017 7:06:03 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Hugh the Scot

I’m old, we used to call it pussy whipped in my day. Only we weren’t proud of it as would never wear a T Shirt admitting it.


12 posted on 05/20/2017 7:06:19 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: lee martell

Very good point. Labels like the “Affordable Health Care Act” come immediately to mind. Labels are mostly feel good terms designed to con people into accepting what they wouldn’t if they knew the truth.


13 posted on 05/20/2017 7:06:48 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

Exactly...


14 posted on 05/20/2017 7:07:45 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: gogeo

bad thing about it is that it’s not only Berkeley...This kind of BS is happening at many schools....


15 posted on 05/20/2017 7:09:18 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just what we need. More MBA’s destroying businesses coast to coast.


16 posted on 05/20/2017 7:10:13 AM PDT by cp124 (The media and the left do not want America to be great.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A male ally is a man who works to end gender discrimination by supporting and being an advocate for women.

We used to call such "men" pussies. Weenies. Wimps. Twirps. Fairies.

You get the idea.

17 posted on 05/20/2017 7:15:01 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How a man adapts and survives in a male dominated dystopia.
Akin to how Christians in Shariah law societies and modern Muslim nations are the biggest apologists for Islamic regimes - it makes them safer and gives them a higher status.


18 posted on 05/20/2017 7:16:56 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They make Beta males look like Alphas by comparison.


19 posted on 05/20/2017 7:17:39 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Starboard
We are witnessing seismic cultural and demographic shifts in the country that do not bode well for our future.

Sounds like what parents used to say back in the 1960s during the flower power movement and all the other silly 60s fads. Then the hippies grew up to be establishment yuppies and settled down in suburban McMansions. Most of them anyway.

The reason it seems worse today is that we have an Internet in which millions of people are constantly seeking attention. People like these two young men wouldn't have gotten an inch of space in newspapers back then.

In reality, the youngsters of the 1960s were much wilder and had even loonier ideas.

20 posted on 05/20/2017 7:19:40 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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