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| University of Texas to Treat Masculinity as a 'Mental Health' Issue |
| 2018-04-29 |
| [PJMedia] 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." They just don't want any men competing in white collar market. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #13 Its not a state school #9. Unfortunately. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-29 23:15 |
| #12 UT Austin is taking their steer mascot too literally. Snark of the day contender. (FYI - a 'steer' has had it's balls removed.) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-04-29 22:28 |
| #11 UT Austin is taking their steer mascot too literally. |
| Posted by: Tholurong Jones1532 2018-04-29 21:34 |
| #10 I'd say that is too far removed from the original intent of the charter. No further public funding until a program-by-program audit confirming core educational principles and cancelling non-core programs and initiatives. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-04-29 19:47 |
| #9 Taxpayer funded institution. right? Republican Governor, Republican majority in the State Senate and House. Let's see if GOPers actually do something. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-04-29 14:05 |
| #8 Act like a man typically means act like an adult. Stop crying and bitching constantly. Of course the university system that is turning men into women and or babies has issues. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-04-29 13:24 |
| #7 Queer, wouldn't you say? |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-29 11:03 |
| #6 Methinks the councilor staff was warned beforehand not to jeopardize the cash cows (i.e football program and such). Otherwise, go full retard! |
| Posted by: Roth LaDoad 2018-04-29 10:31 |
| #5 if a pre-req for the course is to sell off the pick up, it aint gonna happen. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2018-04-29 09:11 |
| #4 Do they have a similar program for those who identify as "lefties?" |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-04-29 08:48 |
| #3 Typical Stalinist psychology - 'You don't agree with us? You must be CRAZY!' |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-04-29 07:36 |
| #2 is Austin still in Texas? |
| Posted by: Snunter Hupesh3731 2018-04-29 07:25 |
| #1 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." Why didn't you push that on 9/11? NYFD and NYPD could have avoided all those casualties. The oxygen must be really thin at UTA. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-04-29 06:53 |