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Men Have Started Taking Classes Run By Feminists To Unlearn Being Masculine

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Via The Cut:

For some time, Stephen Hicks had felt like something was off. “My relationship ended, then a lot of things started collapsing in front of me,” Hicks says. He began attending therapy, which made him realize that he needed to make a bigger change: “I wasn’t doing really terrible things, but I also wasn’t being the most ideal Stephen I could be,” he says. “The bar is really lowered for cisgender guys.”

So earlier this year, Hicks signed up for the pilot Rethink Masculinity class, a partnership between the Washington, D.C., Rape Crisis Center, Collective Action for Safe Spaces, and ReThink, an organization that works to prevent sexual assault.

The program bills itself as a class where men “learn how social constructs of masculinity harm them and the people around them, and work to construct healthier masculinities.” Or, as Hicks puts it, “It was eight weeks of guys discussing how they can address their actions with better self-awareness and less toxicity.”

“We spoke of emotional labor, consent, violence, communication, empathy, and vulnerability,” he adds, noting that the last subject, in particular, was a struggle for him: “[I was] trained and conditioned to be tough growing up.”

The Rethink program is the latest in a growing number of courses targeted toward people who identify as men, including the Men’s Project at the University of Wisconsin, Masculinity 101 at Brown, and the Duke Men’s Project at Duke. The goal, proponents say, is to help men examine their own biases and behaviors in order to cut down on misogyny and gender-based violence.

There’s no doubt that the problems these classes aim to tackle are pervasive ones — a reality that’s been made especially, painfully clear in recent days and weeks, as the Harvey Weinstein revelations have pushed discussions of sexual assault and harassment to the forefront. But can a class really be enough to chip away at something so deeply entrenched?

“It’s a promising approach,” says Eric Mankowski, associate chair of the psychology department at Portland State University and head of the school’s Gender and Violence Intervention Research Team, “but we don’t know whether they prevent sexual violence. Some studies show promising effects on attitudes and behavior intentions, but a single class is unlikely to undo years of socialization in toxic masculinity.”

For the past 25 years, Mankowski has taught a course titled Psychology of Men and Masculinities, which, he says, “deconstruct[s] how masculinity is socialized as a performative mask rather than a biological imperative.” He argues that the concept of “toxic masculinity” has four main components: suppression of anything stereotypically feminine; suppression of emotions related to vulnerability, like fear, sadness, or helplessness; male domination over women and other men; and aggression.

“From those four distal expectations come the proximal attitudes and behaviors, like ‘I deserve to have access to women’s bodies,’” he explains. “What we don’t know is if it’s more effective to address the distal or proximal ideas and behaviors.” Mankowski says alcohol abuse is a perfect example. “It numbs feelings and allows men to act aggressive. We can effectively address it, but we’re not addressing the underlying issue. It’s functioning to help them display their manhood, so why would they stop?”

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“We’ve spent many years addressing survivors and victim behavior, but ethically, and in terms of efficacy, that’s incomplete,” he adds. “We have to address the roots.” And while course evaluations show that his students typically absorb what he teaches, Mankowski notes, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the class is making a real-world difference: “It may change beliefs about gender,” he says, “but does it change behavior?”

It’s not a given, but it’s not impossible, either. Research consistently shows that holding sexist attitudes is associated with gender violence, for example, so it’s not unreasonable to hope that better beliefs can lead to better behavior. Studies have also demonstrated that bystander intervention training — a subject covered in Rethink classes — can be effective at reducing the incidence of sexual assault.

On the other hand, though, these classes are taking on a lot. Trying to undo a lifetime’s worth of lessons about how to act at home, in the workplace, and in public — it’s a lofty goal, especially when so much of what participants encounter outside the classroom contradicts what they learn within it. And some of the desired outcomes — increased vulnerability, more emotional openness — are difficult to measure.

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105 thoughts on “Men Have Started Taking Classes Run By Feminists To Unlearn Being Masculine”

  1. We are just one small step away from teaching a man to honor and love their wives as the big black bull pounds her into oblivion, all as a way for him to prove that he’s not racist.

      1. no, he has a point. There was a feminist recently that was advocating adopting the habits of some insignificant, tiny amazonian tribe in which the men shared their wives openly.
        We’ve also seen pressure on people to date across ethnicities. Pretty soon it will be a hate crime to refuse to date someone because of their race.
        A short step from there to mandatory ‘share your girlfriend’ classes.

    2. These unfortunate dudes believe that social castration will bring them more women. Appeasing women is what this is all about. Meanwhile, as Roosh says, women are always drawn to the bad boys and mandingo that treats them badly. The only place these unfortunate betas are going to end up is on the Friendzone list.

  2. There should be mandatory delousing after these classes,
    through watching and reading Warren Farrell.

  3. “It’s not a given, but it’s not impossible, either. Research consistently shows that holding sexist attitudes is associated with gender violence, for example, so it’s not unreasonable to hope that better beliefs can lead to better behavior. “…Ya, I call bullshit on that…please give me your sources on that because I bet it is a load of crap. Not even sure how you could acquire that statistic to begin with.

  4. In Western societies women are in charge and do everything on any level to suppress men in order to remain in charge. Such Matriarchy is a bitter price for living in wealth.
    In you take a look as far as lower Paleolithic age or even earlier, you’ll find out that any wealthy tribes were ruled by post-reproductive women who tended to oppress men, barely multiply and raise kids as servants to remain in charge thus having unlimited access to abundant goods. Girls were also raised as dominant, instead of submissive. As it was more beneficial for oppressing future men. Men, who were hunters and providers weren’t needed as there was a shit load of stuff already. That’s why matriarchal tribes which didn’t reproduce well and had weaker men than patriarchal ones, were always destroyed by the latter. Matriarchy is biologically set for failure as it is incompatible with natural reproduction and gender roles.
    That’s what we are witnessing at the West right now. Matriarchal whites are being conquered by patriarchal non-white immigrants.

      1. That is actually somewhat incorrect Fitz. You see white folks need to strengthen their women because this makes them unconquerable from other races and cultures. Yet there is a side effect that builds female social immunity to their own men. You white guys also made your own women repelling your masculinity as well. That is the consequence. You keep your women feminine and weak you lose them from possible conquests from other cultures in the future. You give your women strengthen and power you lose them from the strength and power you give them.

        1. Women aren’t going to stop any conquest. That is a man’s job. A society of weak men leads to captured women. Sometimes by force but other times by women defecting to the enemy ala conversions to Islam

        2. The only vulnerability you should give your white woman is being prego. When she’s prego, she’s weakened and slower. You step up to the plate and slay any wolves that follow the straggling breeder woman.
          But a fat entitled barren bitching woman on a couch snapping her fingers and barking orders at you – start by tip toeing to the fuse box and turning off the circuit breaker for the TV. Then plop a bag of potatos to peel in her lap and a pile of pants that need the ass sewn.

      2. No matter how this is said simply put if you are a white guy or white girl you are screwed! With all that consumer debt, consumerism, high fructose corn syrup and other artificial ingredients in your food supply, warped social thinking and agendas, and the decimation of the family you white folks are killing yourselves by a thousand cuts. I enjoy banging your women but to keep one long term is suicide!

        1. Perhaps you should retreat to those advanced societies in Africa or the Middle East to find refuge. Clearly their shit is straightened out.
          Oh wait

        2. I would but we have not worked out a deal for my back to be shaved daily. So I am stuck in the West for a while since they also take crypto currency.

      1. Then after hearing a white woman whine, I mean talk, for a few minutes then we brownies know what you white guys can’t stand your own women yourselves. But that is after the money shot.

        1. You realize that every White guy who loses his shit and performs a mass shooting actually was quite feminized already right?

        4. He has a point about them whining. Most white women under 40 are intolerable. The only way you can find a white woman with sense is to hang out at an old age home. Those old timers don’t buy all the diversity and cultural marxist bullcrap.

  6. Yeah… look at the eyes on the guys in the first picture. The eyes of those four “men” are screaming for help. You can tell they know this is all bullshit, that what they’re doing is wrong and that they’re sacrificing what makes them men, and they’re screaming for help because they don’t know how to get the hell out of this mess they got themselves into and are too afraid to try to escape.
    That’s what happens when you let fear and the blue pill control you.

    1. I mean pussy really isn’t all that great. It’s just not worth emasculating yourself over, especially with the ugly ass women that attempt to enforce this cuckery on them. My advice for these dudes is to man up, lose the amorphous body at the gym, learn some confidence and by god, shave those betabeards.

      1. “I mean pussy really isn’t all that great. It’s just not worth emasculating yourself over…”
        -Words worth than GOLD !

      2. The kicker is this behavior will not result in women rewarding these simps with sex anyway.

      3. The older I get the more I realize that accomplishments and personal pride matter more than women. Happily married to a much younger woman, but sex matters less and less. I’m more concerned with career and competition these days.

      4. “I mean pussy really isn’t all that great.”
        I disagree. You are either jaded or asexual. You can only be jaded if you got so much pussy you can go meh but you’d only realise how much you miss it if no girl ever wanted to sleep with you again even if you were the last man on earth.

    1. Hey, George, you misspelled your last name. It is S-O-R-O-S, you big dummy. But I mean that in the nicest possible way.

    2. Only if you take that 10 million in quarters. I would do only pennies and nickels but I am in a good mood so I am being a nice guy today.

  10. This article is typical of the select ‘approved think’ that makes its way into print on a college campus. It’s a honey trap asking for ‘volunteers’, bored men and the like to participate in stopping the oxymoronic nonexistant boogeyman ‘toxic masculinity’. IT IS PROPAGANDA aimed at neutering all maleness in society. In reality neutering of men is a pre emptive attack leading to a deconstructive campaign on the society to subjugate it. Emasculation of the society’s men is the first assault enforced at the end of a gun barrel by first responders to frivolous women’s advocacy hotline calls. Women’s feelings and moods are weaponized where if she ‘feels’ bad, then you feel handcuffs. If you resist the cuffs, it is bullets.
    I’d swear those ‘volunteers’ probably never heard of neo masculinity, the red pill or the manosphere. At first I thought the place blew a tire but this is what’s REALLY being taught to our youth on the regular. It’s no wonder so many youth need unbelievable amounts of help overcoming the mind warpage and climbing out of the emasculation propaganda hell.

  11. Congradulations feminism. You created a generation of soyboy chumps who are afraid of their own dicks lol.

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