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One of the many problems on campus today is how males are targeted to the point of being second class citizens. As faculty, I\u2019ve been warned against giving homework and tests, because these things discourage students\u2026but admin doesn\u2019t understand how creating a climate of hatred against males is discouraging male students from coming to campus (60% of graduates are female for reasons<\/a>, after all).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s isn\u2019t just the endless \u201cwe need more females in STEM\u201d promotions on our campuses, the systemic sexism on our campuses really does make males think they are the problem.<\/p>\n

University of Texas to Treat Masculinity as a ‘Mental Health’ Issue<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To be fair, these sorts of initiations don\u2019t simultaneously come from all departments. There\u2019s usually a specific origin:<\/p>\n

The Counseling and Mental Health Center<\/strong> at the University of Texas at Austin recently launched a new program to help male students \u201ctake control over their gender identity and develop a healthy sense of masculinity.\u201d<\/em>
\n –emphasis added.<\/em><\/p>\n

I really do remember a time when campuses were all about education and research, and campuses were composed of departments, each focusing on particular academic fields. Today, campuses are spit up into little fiefdoms, each filled with assorted Vice Presidents determined to find something to do; academic departments are now an afterthought, a mere curlicue on the new university mission of supporting the administrative fiefdoms.<\/p>\n

So it is that instead of Pyschology Departments handling this sort of thing, we have \u201cCounseling and Mental Health Centers\u201d doing what no university would consider doing a generation ago.<\/p>\n

The program is predicated on a critique of so-called \u201crestrictive masculinity.\u201d Men, the program argues, suffer when they are told to \u201cact like a man\u201d or when they are encouraged to fulfill traditional gender roles, such as being \u201csuccessful\u201d or \u201cthe breadwinner.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Seriously, what\u2019s happened to us as a people that being successful, acquiring enough resources to raise a family, are considered bad things, goals which are problematic for a man to pursue? Imagine being raised in a normal home environment where these goals are encouraged, and then coming to campus and being told that what you\u2019ve learned in your family is wrongthink? Having this new point of view given to you by a $150,000 a year Vice President of Man-Hating is going to give a mixed, confusing message to be sure.<\/p>\n

Though you might enjoy \u201ctaking care of people\u201d or being \u201cactive,\u201d MasculinUT warns that many of these attributes are actually dangerous,<\/em><\/p>\n

Holy cow. If I were the suspicious sort (though I guess I am), I could interpret the above as saying \u201cyou shouldn\u2019t take care of people, let the government do it\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t be active, become a couch potato, sit home and trust your government-supplied news, and get your health care from the government\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that\u2019s a bit paranoid, but for thousands of years, it was understood that a proper male did indeed take care of the people he loved, and engaged in rigorous physical activity\u2014a gymnasium was a place both for exercise a<\/a>nd intellectual pursuit in the ancient world, after all. Today a gymnasium is just for exercise, and they don\u2019t want males doing even that.<\/p>\n

Why are our universities now teaching the exact opposite of the wisdom humanity accumulated over thousands of years? A healthy body really does contribute to a healthy mind, and we\u2019ve known this for a very long time\u2026but the university is negating this belief, for some reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf 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!\u201d the program offers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Males need help to not feel guilty? Break the cycle of life which has created the most advanced civilization this planet has ever produced? If we\u2019re really going to reject thousands of years of knowledge, shouldn\u2019t we do so for a good reason beyond \u201cmaybe the students aren\u2019t happy with this wisdom\u201d? Seriously, is there nobody on campus cognitively able to question this new initiative?<\/p>\n

The program is currently without leadership, but not for long. The school is in the process of hiring a \u201chealthy masculinities coordinator<\/a>\u201d to run the program\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Am I truly alone in thinking it ridiculous that \u201cleadership\u201d is defined as \u201cmindlessly following the new narrative\u201d? Is there truly nobody who finds the title \u201cHealthy Masculinities Coordinator\u201d a bit Orwellian in that this coordinator will be promoting the exact opposite of what \u201chealthy masculinity\u201d has meant for thousands of years? Does anyone think maybe this is a strange title to find on a university campus?<\/p>\n

While many schools now have similar programs, this appears to be the first run directly out of a Counseling and Mental Health Center.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the article a bit too subtly points out, this isn\u2019t just a problem at University of Texas. Many of our schools are now pursuing social engineering, tearing down the foundations which allowed us to build a great society in the past.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t supported by any evidence.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, this destroying of the foundations of our culture is unsupported by any evidence\u2026and yet our schools are still doing it. It\u2019s a shame none of our \u201cleaders\u201d in higher education can ask \u201cwhy?\u201d but allow me to offer a very simple answer.<\/p>\n

Our schools are drowning in fiefdoms filled with very highly paid administrators, far, far, far, more than could ever be justified for the university missions of education and research. These guys have to give themselves a job to do, and they do not care if there\u2019s no reason for it, no evidence indicating their job is necessary. If it turns out what they\u2019re doing is a disaster, that\u2019s a bonus\u2014you\u2019ll just establish another fiefdom to fix the problems created by the anti-masculinity fiefdom.<\/p>\n

And so again I come to the student loan scam, which provides the money for these people who\u2019ve given themselves the job of destroying a system which has created so much wealth it can pay them, exorbitantly, to do it. Just end the student loan scam already.<\/p>\n

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