Watch out women's studies, here comes male studies

Article here. Excerpt:

'Inside Higher Ed reports that the discipline will be dedicated to "exploring the triumphs and struggles of the XY-chromosomed of the human race -- without needing to contextualize their ideas as being one half of a male-female binary or an offshoot of feminist theory." Paul Nathanson, a religious studies researcher at McGill University, tells Higher Ed that "the institutionalization of misandry" is "being generated by feminists," although he generously adds, "not all feminists." Lionel Tiger, an anthropology professor at Rutgers University and the chair of the men's studies symposium, calls feminism "a well-meaning, highly successful, very colorful denigration of maleness as a force, as a phenomenon."
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Inevitably, men's studies will be confused with its new confrontational and divisive counterpart, which is awfully sad. I remember wishing my college women's studies courses would talk more about men, which is to say that I wished for the broader perspective that men's studies embraces. Now male studies has arrived on the scene to turn this into yet another battle between the sexes. Grab your armor, because this one's gonna be bloody.'

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??? Um, it's the same battle only with men beginning to actually fight back against the onslaught.

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I'm trying to figure this out; are we in a unique time? What I mean is that the misandry going on now seems different from usual gender discrimination in that men are taught they have no natural value. I know that not that long ago women were valued as nurtures and men as providers. Now the government only sees men as bad... yet relies on them.

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