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 Male college students to undergo ‘critical self-reflection’ of masculinity
Jeremy Beaman - University of Mobile •January 3, 2017
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‘Goal is to create a sense of security in vulnerability …’

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently taking applications for its “Men’s Project,” a six-week program that aims to counter the alleged harmful effects of society’s masculinity paradigms and pressures and empower participants to promote “gender equity.”

“Men’s Project creates a space for critical self-reflection and dialogue about what it means to be a man and how masculinity impacts us and those around us,” organizers state in promoting the effort.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/30561/
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Well, if they were raised by leftist parents, they probably don't have much masculinity to get rid of......
Character still matters.  It always matters.

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I guess that "I got your reflection swingin'!" wouldn't go over well.

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Well, if they were raised by leftist parents, they probably don't have much masculinity to get rid of......

Lol!  You win!  :laugh:

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Sounds like something out of a communist country like North Korea

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Character still matters.  It always matters.

I wear a mask as an exercise in liberty and love for others.  To see it as an infringement of liberty is to entirely miss the point.  Be kind.

"Sometimes I think the Church would be better off if we would call a moratorium on activity for about six weeks and just wait on God to see what He is waiting to do for us. That's what they did before Pentecost."   - A. W. Tozer

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The first comment to the article was outstanding.  Scroll down in the article.

"Communist Reeducation 101:

1. "...aims to counter the alleged harmful effects of society’s masculinity paradigms..."

Masculinity, as a general concept, advances the notions of independent agency, strength, intellect, and personal responsibility. Although women exercise these traits as well, they have traditionally been associated with the masculine. These traits are also essential in a liberty based society where individuals need to capitalize on the concept of equality of opportunity in order to become well adjusted and independent adults.

Communists seek to undo these norms to produce group-oriented and intellectually inept invalids who must look to a central authority figure (the State) to be able to function.

2. "...creates a space for critical self-reflection..."

This is where the Maoist "struggle session" takes place. Here, the men are accused of crimes to which they were not a party and from which they are not permitted to exonerate themselves, in typical kafkaesque fashion. Then, this guilt is poured into them under severe peer pressure until they capitulate.

3. "...promote the advancement of gender equity..."

They want equality of outcome between groups, that is, communism. That is how they define "equity." There is never any interest on fostering equality of opportunity between independent individuals, as capitalism promotes.

4. "...media and pop culture, vulnerability, sexuality, hook-up culture, alcohol, relationships and violence..."

All pathways by which men may either learn or express their masculinity are then targeted for specific attack and "reeducation." This is done to not only make it impossible for men to practice, express, and reinforce their masculinity, but is also done to make the expression of masculinity intolerable to women and society as a whole.

All of it is communism, and it is all being snuck in under the guise of "equity.""
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Well, if they were raised by leftist parents, they probably don't have much masculinity to get rid of......
My observation of the college-age set (my husband having worked at colleges for the past several years) is that there simply isn't a lot of testosterone to go around. Yeah, they may "hook up" with anything that walks by, but they're far from being men (and that really says more about the low self-esteem of the females on campus than the manliness of the alleged males).
Is it the same where you are, ML?
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My observation of the college-age set (my husband having worked at colleges for the past several years) is that there simply isn't a lot of testosterone to go around. Yeah, they may "hook up" with anything that walks by, but they're far from being men (and that really says more about the low self-esteem of the females on campus than the manliness of the alleged males).


My 20 year old niece attends a Big 10 school.  Lots of conservative, masculine men and femine, conservative women.  The girlie men, 3rd wave feminist and SJW crowd while vocal are small in number but they get the internet traffic which seems to inflate their true numbers.


Milo Yiounopolis  has a sell out crowd to every school he gives a speech. 

All of my nephews (and wife's side also) I would consider masculine-all were in either Boy Scouts, Athletics and most are conservative-maybe not far right but lean right.

Not saying we don't have problems but think it is over inflated.

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"critical self-reflection and dialogue"
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Sounds like the three dollar way of saying: whining...
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Not saying we don't have problems but think it is over inflated.
I hope you're right! My observations over the years I visited campus (a small state university with a surprising number of conservatives among the faculty) was that most of the males were couch potatoes who spent a lot of time in the union playing video games - with other guys. There were exceptions, however, and thank goodness for that.
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My observation of the college-age set (my husband having worked at colleges for the past several years) is that there simply isn't a lot of testosterone to go around. Yeah, they may "hook up" with anything that walks by, but they're far from being men (and that really says more about the low self-esteem of the females on campus than the manliness of the alleged males).
Is it the same where you are, ML?

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Why would there be?  In many areas masculinity has been eliminated through indoctrination from kindergarten on up.
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My observation of the college-age set (my husband having worked at colleges for the past several years) is that there simply isn't a lot of testosterone to go around. Yeah, they may "hook up" with anything that walks by, but they're far from being men (and that really says more about the low self-esteem of the females on campus than the manliness of the alleged males).
Is it the same where you are, ML?

I agree, though the courses I teach don't require a lot of testosterone in order to do well.  :smokin:

I teach in a conservative university and in a branch campus of a state university, and in both cases there are more people with traditional ideas and roles than in the "outside" world.

I'm all for flipping stereotypes on their heads (that loving music and art and being courteous isn't "masculine" and that being aggressive and strong isn't "feminine"), but I think the leftist culture has done nothing but confuse young males into becoming cowering jellyfish afraid of their own shadows, ergo my comment about being raised by leftist parents.

Artificial explosions of what some people mistake for masculinity (as evidenced by internet bullying and machismo) bug me as much as wimps who are afraid to be men.

I think they're both evidence of insecurity.
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self-criticism sessions in North Korea are mandatory

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My observation of the college-age set (my husband having worked at colleges for the past several years) is that there simply isn't a lot of testosterone to go around. Yeah, they may "hook up" with anything that walks by, but they're far from being men (and that really says more about the low self-esteem of the females on campus than the manliness of the alleged males).
Is it the same where you are, ML?

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I should add that the most striking negative development in the students I see is the overall lack of maturity in both genders.  The incoming freshmen get more and more childish, less and less capable, and more and more ignorant of history and of life in general.

Fortunately, I'm in two universities where there are a number of mature students who have been educated, but the increase in the number of extremely immature 18 year olds who don't know anything that happened before the day they were born, has been startling.

IOW, they're sexually active children.   **nononono*
Character still matters.  It always matters.

I wear a mask as an exercise in liberty and love for others.  To see it as an infringement of liberty is to entirely miss the point.  Be kind.

"Sometimes I think the Church would be better off if we would call a moratorium on activity for about six weeks and just wait on God to see what He is waiting to do for us. That's what they did before Pentecost."   - A. W. Tozer

Use the time God is giving us to seek His will and feel His presence.

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“Men’s Project creates a space for critical self-reflection....

Cutting to the chase, the focal point for such reflection is a few inches south of the navel....

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I should add that the most striking negative development in the students I see is the overall lack of maturity in both genders.  The incoming freshmen get more and more childish, less and less capable, and more and more ignorant of history and of life in general.


and more and more proud of it

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by Tom Ciccotta3 Jan 2017


A six-week program offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to counter the effects of the societal expectation for men to be masculine.

 The program centers on the premise that masculinity is primarily a societal construct rather than an intrinsic biological reality. Based on this premise, radical gender theorists argue that masculinity has a toxic influence on society.


The “Men’s Project” is a six-week program for male students that asks participants to reflect on the negative effects of the expectation to be masculine. A news release from the University of Wisconsin material claims that one of the goals is to “prevent future violence” from male students.


http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/01/03/university-of-wisconsin-course-examines-negative-effects-of-masculinity/
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Men acting like men is a horrible thing. Men acting/dressing like women is wonderful.


Soooo, what is the ultimate goal of all this. Are they saying that if we had a nation of women, along with a gaggle of men who act like and want to be women, then that would lead to utopia?


Liberals are strange. An all woman society, including the, so called, men. Is that the goal.


I promise I don't understand. Unless the goal is to cripple America to the point that they are unable to defend themselves, then none of this makes any sense according to basic biology, history, or common sense.
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Real men don't give diddly what these puzzy's think :laugh:

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Merged two threads on same topic.