Swordsmyth
04-30-2018, 02:27 AM
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” (https://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav/vav_masculinut.html) 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 (https://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav/vav_masculinut_restrictive.html) warns that many of these attributes are actually dangerous, claiming (https://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav/vav_masculinut_restrictive.html) that “traditional ideas of masculinity place men into rigid (or restrictive) boxes [which]... prevent them from developing their emotional maturity.”
More at: https://pjmedia.com/trending/university-of-texas-to-treat-masculinity-as-a-mental-health-issue/
Treating masculinity as if it were a mental health crisis, “MasculinUT” (https://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav/vav_masculinut.html) 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 (https://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav/vav_masculinut_restrictive.html) warns that many of these attributes are actually dangerous, claiming (https://cmhc.utexas.edu/vav/vav_masculinut_restrictive.html) that “traditional ideas of masculinity place men into rigid (or restrictive) boxes [which]... prevent them from developing their emotional maturity.”
More at: https://pjmedia.com/trending/university-of-texas-to-treat-masculinity-as-a-mental-health-issue/