Traditional Masculinity: How It Can Hurt Everybody

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2014-04-22 22:40

Article here. Excerpt:

'Earlier in the month of April, the National Latin@ Network (NLN) -- the national institute on gender-based violence in the Latin@ community and a project of Casa de Esperanza -- released the national Te Invito Campaign, an effort to engage Latino men and boys in the fight to eradicate violence against women. The campaign includes public service announcements that any organization can customize for local purposes as well as a toolkit that helps men and boys explore questions of gender-based violence. In light of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, these tools can be particularly helpful. Below, Juan Carlos Areán, National Director of the NLN, discusses traditional masculinity, traditional concepts of what men "can/should" and "cannot/should not" do. Are men taught to hurt others and themselves? And how can male socialization play a role in gender-based violence?'

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... but being it's the HuffPo, we'll see if the mod lets it through:

"Is it just me or does anyone else think it's kind of ironic that the following story is linked on this page?:

"Porsha Stewart Charged With Assault & Now Has Warrant for Her Arrest"
http://www.cafemom.com/advice/toddlers/health_and_development?prism_id=171239&utm_medium=sem2&utm_campaign=prism&utm_source=taboola-s&utm_content=2497.5863

As long as females' violence against one another and also against men and children goes ignored, no one can expect males' violence against each other and females and children to abate. They are two sides of the same coin: immaturity, lack of self-control, dysfunctional/abusive childhood environments, misplaced or unresolved anger, a desire to control others, feelings of powerlessness, simple "crazy", or any combo thereof -- take your pick. "Masculinity", traditional notions or not, has little to do with it. In fact, traditional notions of masculinity include settling things peaceably and exercising restraint; men, after all, invented redress via legal systems they invented and they also invented civilization as we know it. So there's nothing "traditional" about violence among men or toward women and/or children. Like violence from and among women, it's a symptom of a larger problem, and one that will only get larger the more that violence behavior from *all* its sources is not examined and redressed."

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2014-04-23 07:30