University of Winnipeg introduces men's studies

A woman, teaching guys about feminist definitions of masculinity? How is that men's studies?

-ax

This course is doomed to fail.

With-hold attendance until a masculine male teaches the course.

oregon dad

It is confirmed. This woman is a feminist and a women's studies professor. WTF? This is exactly the problem we will be facing. The advent of "Men's Studies" taught by feminists both male and female who are pre-disposed to the idea that men are the problem, the patriarchy, etc.

She is a women and gender studies professor. It says so on the web site. Men are a gender, so it must include them. /sarcasm off

O.D. no it will not fail, this will become the norm.
-ax

Just another way to make men into what women want.

I wonder why women's studies are not based on to "examines myths, theories, and images of [women and girls] that shape how they are represented and how they represent themselves in popular culture, particularly in feature films.".

If Ms. Greenhill was serious about presenting a true picture of "men's studies" she would begin with the role of men in human history and how that has formed their character.

I doubt very much that she will begin with the fact that men, due to their greater physical size and freedom from childbearing, are genetically programmed to be the providers and protectors of their families. Boys learn from the early age to disregard their own wellbeing and to be "brave".

Even the much maligned polygamy evolved for the benefit of women. Men have always been the disposable sex. When a man is killed, either in warfare to which he was conscripted usually against his will, or while on a hunting trip to provide for his family, the family would be left without a provider and a protector. Thus, it became a law that a brother of the man would have to "adopt" the widow and her children in addition to providing for his own family, often against his own wishes.

Young handsome boys used to be castrated, in a most cruel manner, either to become eunuchs to guard the harems of the notables who were few and far in between, or to preserve their beautiful soprano voices for the church choirs. How many of us know that they were made to sit in cow dung in order to sterilize their wound, inflicted without anaesthesia?

Will she also teach that we still regard men as walking wallets whose only function is to provide for their families and ex-families, often beyond their capacity to provide for themselves while denied any contact with their children whose mothers may already be supported by other partners? Will she tell that our family law demands “child support” to be generous enough to benefit the entire household where his child(ren) reside? Will she tell her students that the leading cause of death of Canadian men in their prime is suicide and that all reputable research show that the only constant linked to these tragedies is the break-up of their families and loss of their children?

Too many questions, and maybe too few answers.