School helps students ‘nurture feminist masculinities’ during ‘Masculinities Month’

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2019-02-20 12:10

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity at the University of Kansas has devoted the month of February to developing “feminist masculinities” and questioning “the collective socialization of men” through a slate of activities they’ve dubbed “Masculinities Month.”
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“Through these [events], the Emily Taylor Center encourages you to learn about and question the ‘collective socialization of men,’ the ‘traditional masculine script,’ and the concept of ‘the man box’; consider the relationship between intersectionality and masculinities; explore the differences between patriarchy and feminism as well as between patriarchal masculinity and feminist masculinity,” the center’s website states.

“We also share strategies for those seeking to practice and/or nurture feminist masculinities in their everyday lives.”

The center did not respond to The College Fix’s request for comment on event attendance so far, as well as where the funding for the month’s programs comes from.

Two of the month’s events are “zine” nights, where participants can gather to make “zines” or tiny homemade magazines. One event is geared toward zines where participants can “create your own counternarrative.” The zines will be collected, copied, and disseminated on-campus by the center. Organizers of the zine events did not respond to requests for comment on the expected turnout for the activities.'

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... turn men into more of what women THINK they want continues. Meanwhile, meth-dealing punks who beat up girls when they talk back have no trouble finding women ready to throw themselves at them. And so it goes.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2019-02-20 19:27

Apparently a lot fo women have been swooning over the portrayal of Ted Bundy in the recent Netflix movie--enough that they've issued warnings or something similar. A lot of convicted killers receive lots of marriage proposals in jail.

But women say they want emasculated men.

Do women even know what they want? And isn't that the question men have been asking for centuries?

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Submitted by el cid on Wed, 2019-02-20 23:01

Never believe a woman who says she wants you to "open up," to be as emotionally effusive and incontinent as she is, maybe even shed tears. As soon as you do any of those things, she'll despise you for it.
I've never understood why women expend so much energy trying to emasculate men and turn them into "honorary women," only to show unbridled contempt for the products of their efforts.

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Submitted by Roger on Thu, 2019-02-21 12:23

This reminds me of how society expends so much energy trying to get women into STEM as well.

Heaven forbid we just acknowledge what women are actually interested in!

To be honest, I think a lot of the motivation behind these things has to do with delusions of grandeur. Some women believe that they are so amazing that everyone should be like them (or at least how they perceive themselves which probably is not an accurate depiction), including men. Hence this push for "deconstructing masculinity" and "men embracing their feminine side."

The push for women in STEM has to do with the fact that many of the most brilliant minds that ever existed hailed from this field: Curie, Turing, Hawking, Einstein, Planck, Newton, Leibnitz, etc. (literally a very long list of brilliant people)
Naturally some of the women who can't hack it in STEM can't accept this fact, so they blame the system. They blame sexism. They do everything they can to have the current setup contort and rotate around them so that they can get the pat on the back they need to feel smart.

The funny thing is that I believe anyone who tries can hack it in STEM. It just has a very low tolerance for those who give up easily, or whose fee-fees get hurt when they don't get something right the first few tries.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2019-02-21 20:03