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Another shining example of liberalism as a mental disorder. Roll Eyes

https://pjmedia.com/trending/u...mental-health-issue/

University of Texas to Treat Masculinity as a 'Mental Health' Issue

BY TONI AIRAKSINEN APRIL 27, 2018


The Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin recently launched a new program to help male students “take control over their gender identity and develop a healthy sense of masculinity.”

Treating masculinity as if it were a mental health crisis, “MasculinUT” is organized by the school’s counseling staff and most recently organized a poster series encouraging students to develop a “healthy model of masculinity.”

The program is predicated on a critique of so-called “restrictive masculinity.” Men, the program argues, suffer when they are told to “act like a man” or when they are encouraged to fulfill traditional gender roles, such as being “successful” or “the breadwinner.”

Though you might enjoy “taking care of people” or being “active,” MasculinUT warns that many of these attributes are actually dangerous, claiming that “traditional ideas of masculinity place men into rigid (or restrictive) boxes [which]... prevent them from developing their emotional maturity.”

“If you are a male student at UT reading this right now, we hope that learning about this helps you not to feel guilty about having participated in these definitions of masculinity, and instead feel empowered to break the cycle!” the program offers.

The program is currently without leadership, but not for long. The school is in the process of hiring a “healthy masculinities coordinator” to run the program, and a school official tells PJ Media that some hopeful hirees are interviewing for the position later this week.

While many schools now have similar programs, this appears to be the first run directly out of a Counseling and Mental Health Center. Though the school seems to justify this by claiming that masculinity can cause men to lash out at other people and themselves, the school did not respond to a request for comment to clarify.

There is no evidence that masculinity itself contributes to violence. Universities that run similar programs, such as UNC-Chapel Hill and Northwestern, have admitted that their programming isn’t supported by any evidence.


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What the hell did I just read?

If "healthy masculinity" looks like pajama-boy-millennial-douchebag, they won't last long.
 
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I wish you would tell me that you're shitting me, but I know you won't. The notion that this is happening in Texas of all places boggles the mind.
 
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I hope every Texas father refuses to let his son attend UTA, and further that they go bankrupt.

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Austin is liberalism central in TX, so it's not such a surprise.


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Any male that enrolls in this treatment program is in no danger of having excessive masculinity.


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Wow, that’s fucked up, and sad.

Oh crap - is that my lack of emotional maturity rearing it’s ugly (male) head ?k


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Write this generation off, they're history. I can only imagine how the guys I went to college with would respond to such nonsense, and the pantywaist boys who participated in it.


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I’m going to my cry closet now. I will be out when I make sense of this.


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My dad (UT-Austin class of 1958) must be rolling in his grave. How long do you think it will be before "Hook 'Em, Horns!" becomes a masculinity trigger phrase and won't be tolerated on campus?




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Austin, that figures, wish they would build a wall around it.


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I am not surprised. Nothing leftist and stupid being spawned or lionized in academia really surprises me any more.

Academia really seems like an increasingly shallow pool of thoughts, behaviors, goals, acceptable norms and world outlook. A pool that needs Chernobyl level bleach.

My Son’s are 15 & 13 years away form their H.S. Graduations and I am increasingly wary of exposing them to the dogshit of a 4 year college program. Trade schools looking more appealing each year.
 
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Originally posted by Tailhook 84:
My dad (UT-Austin class of 1958) must be rolling in his grave. How long do you think it will be before "Hook 'Em, Horns!" becomes a masculinity trigger phrase and won't be tolerated on campus?


I’m ready to roll into mine! Good grief! UT ‘68.

Bevo is a steer, after all, I guess.

BTW, your dad did not graduate from UT Austin in 1958. Then, as in my day, we graduated from UT. It was in Austin.




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Originally posted by 12131:....There is no evidence that masculinity itself contributes to violence. Universities that run similar programs, such as UNC-Chapel Hill and Northwestern, have admitted that their programming isn’t supported by any evidence.


Dear class, there is no evidence to support the lie I will now teach you. (As per Goebbels, if you tell a lie big enough, and repeat it often enough, people will believe it.). At the college where I teach business, economics is not considered business, economics is social science (ie, social justice). Roll Eyes




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Big Grin Their football team has been doing it for years. Might as well spread it to the rest of campus Big Grin



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Fuck them.

One day they'll need real men and have nothing.

Then they'll be fucked good.





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BTW, your dad did not graduate from UT Austin in 1958. Then, as in my day, we graduated from UT. It was in Austin.

You and I know that, JALLEN. But many reading this thread might not not be from Texas, or old enough to know the historical difference. The phrasing was for their benefit. My apologies.




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With all the slackers that have famously graduated from college - including, of course, UT - I have no idea why they think that the problem they're worried about actually exists.
 
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It is crap like this that makes me wish for a zombie apocalypse just so we can clear some pieces off the board. It doesn’t even have to be a particularly big apocalypse because we could just use a small outbreak as an excuse to trim the herd as a precautionary measure to ensure some people wouldn’t get bitten and turn.


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"The school is in the process of hiring a “healthy masculinities coordinator” to run the program,..."


Richard Simmons would be great for that job.
 
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