Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity

[ReverendHellh0und]

Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24488/

‘Being emotional is manly in my opinion’
The size of G.I. Joe’s biceps and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s guns in the Terminatormovies is proof that the dominant form of masculinity is out of control.
That message and similar ones were conveyed recently to students during Vanderbilt University’s “Healthy Masculinities Week,” organized by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center. Attendance for students was optional.
The Vanderbilt week kicked off with a lecture by the first man to minor in women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Jackson Katz. (His alma mater now offers a bachelor’s in women, gender and sexuality studies.)
The self-described “anti-sexist activist” and filmmaker said that sexual violence and domestic abuse are men’s issues and that men would “benefit tremendously from having this conversation.”
Katz founded a consulting firm that “provides gender violence prevention and leadership training to institutions in the public and private sectors” and has pioneered the use of bystander training in the U.S. military, according to his website.
At the event, Katz likened racism to sexism, and told students that “people interrupt other people when they make racist comments.” Therefore they should have the same mindset in response to sexist comments, Katz said.
But he backtracked during an audience question-and-answer session, admitting that sexist comments can be contextually appropriate in a humorous setting.

The PC world of betas trying to justify why others should be exactly like them. Biceps are now sexist.

 

[Gardener]

What's next -- selecting another sort of bulge as an excessive display of masculinity?

 

[Van Basten]

Site seems to be down, so I can't read the glorious nonsense, but I can imagine what it was like.

 

[Skeptic Bob]

Nothing wrong with most what he said. Nothing wrong with big biceps either.

 

[ReverendHellh0und]

Nothing wrong with most what he said. Nothing wrong with big biceps either.

Athletes and fraternity members are a risk to themselves and others because of the pressure put on them to act masculine, according to other events from the week.

One event featured a screening of the limited-release documentary The Mask You Live In, which blames “America’s narrow definition of masculinity” for the deteriorating mental health of boys and men.

“The three most destructive words that every man receives when he’s a boy is when he’s told to ‘be a man,’” former NFL player Joe Ehrmann says in the film. Now a minister, Ehrmann spoke on an all-male panel in 2013 titled “Breaking the Male Code,” which was organized by Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler.

“Whether it’s homicidal violence or suicidal violence, people resort to such desperate behavior only when they are feeling shamed and humiliated, or feel that they would be if they didn’t prove they were real men,” psychiatrist James Gilligan, a professor at New York University, says in the The Mask You Live In.

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[David_N]

Great, what will the homosexual Islamic communist socialist atheist nazi PC neofascist feminists come up with next..

 

[Henrin]

Feminist men are the worst. Not because their male hatred is different than what comes out of the mouths of their female counterparts, but because it's a form of self hatred and cluelessness about their own self.

 

[ReverendHellh0und]

Great, what will the homosexual Islamic communist socialist atheist nazi PC neofascist feminists come up with next..

huh? ?

 

[Reformedfindlay]

The PC world of betas trying to justify why others should be exactly like them. Biceps are now sexist.


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"Betas" u 4chan?

 

[Henrin]

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Not surprising. Feminist have been pulling this male culture is bad for men crap for a long while now. The funny thing is women are 40% more likely to develop a mental illness than men, but that wouldn't fit the feminist narrative that male culture is bad for men. Oh, and saying what I just did is considered sexist by feminists even though it's not sexist to say the crap they do about men.

 

[David_N]

huh? ?

We need to recognize this madness, the PC feminist neofascists are ruining this great country. I stand with you!

 

[ReverendHellh0und]

"Betas" u 4chan?

Nope.

 

[ReverendHellh0und]

We need to recognize this madness, the PC feminist neofascists are ruining this great country. I stand with you!

I'm just laughing at the beta convention whining about the big guns... *kisses own large manly biceps*

 

[Reformedfindlay]

We need to recognize this madness, the PC feminist neofascists are ruining this great country. I stand with you!

"Sarcasm is the protest of the weak" - a wise English teacher I had, a Harvard alumnus

 

[Henrin]

"Sarcasm is the protest of the weak" - a wise English teacher I had, a Harvard alumnus

But I like sarcasm for those times when I want to be a jerk and get a laugh out of it.

 

[Reformedfindlay]

But I like sarcasm for those times when I want to be a jerk and get a laugh out of it.

But arent the jerkiest of jerks the ones who say it plain and clear in front of your face?

 

[soot]

...Healthy Masculinities Week,” organized by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center.

That's about as far as I got before I rolled my eyes and wrote this off as retarded nonsense.

It's like a "Healthy Homosexuality Week", organized by the Westboro Baptist Church.

 

[betuadollar]

It's nothing new. In the 60s there was this dude named Atlas and young males were mailing away for his workout routines. Of course, it was an experiment, because "getting big" was not yet tried and true. There were no concrete examples of anyone other than Atlas having succeeded at getting big so most still viewed it with some suspicion. But women were saying, Oh no, we're not into that anymore. We like less masculine types now, guys with smaller muscles, who are more sensitive to our needs. (Which took some while to translate, btw.) The following week they invented fake boobies and we've been sexually enhancing ever since. Do you want to know what that is? It's sexual competition; we are competing for mates. Women have lost much of the power they once had and so subconsciously they opt to advertise more. Which totally belies the fiction of greater independence doesn't it?

 

[Henrin]

It's nothing new. In the 60s there was this dude named Atlas and young males were mailing away for his workout routines. Of course, it was an experiment, because "getting big" was not yet tried and true. There were no concrete examples of anyone other than Atlas having succeeded at getting big so most still viewed it with some suspicion. But women were saying, Oh no, we're not into that anymore. We like less masculine types now, guys with smaller muscles, who are more sensitive to our needs. (Which took some while to translate, btw.) The following week they invented fake boobies and we've been sexually enhancing ever since. Do you want to know what that is? It's sexual competition; we are competing for mates. Women have lost much of the power they once had and so subconsciously they opt to advertise more. Which totally belies the fiction of greater independence doesn't it?

In many ways feminists have undermined women and left them worse off, but then, it did the same for men too. To feminists credit they did do some good over the years, but most of that was in the early years. The rest of it is bringing in some pretty bad results that appear to becoming worse as time goes on.

 

[Henrin]

But arent the jerkiest of jerks the ones who say it plain and clear in front of your face?

Of course, but you might as well enjoy yourself when you're mocking some dumbassery.

 

[Reformedfindlay]

In many ways feminists have undermined women and left them worse off, but then, it did the same for men too. To feminists credit they did do some good over the years, but most of that was in the early years. The rest of it is bringing in some pretty bad results that appear to becoming worse as time goes on.

Yeah, from voting rights to anyone with a dick is a rapist...

 

[betuadollar]

In many ways feminists have undermined women and left them worse off, but then, it did the same for men too. To feminists credit they did do some good over the years, but most of that was in the early years. The rest of it is bringing in some pretty bad results that appear to becoming worse as time goes on.

Well sure. Today a female will do anything at all to satisfy her man including even provide financial support. And guys still won't marry them, let alone promise to remain faithful. The problem was that they traded the power and security gained through sexuality for greater mobility. And it's the old rotten apple in the barrel scenario, once one woman does it they all have to. For feminists it was "cha-ching" because they were profiting from it. But it's been one continuous downward spiral ever since.

My mother's generation didn't have to do any of these things. And guys would provide them with a lifetime of support, sustenance, and security for them and their children. They were smarter; they understood the human condition, and the power they had as long as all stuck to conventions. They certainly garnished a whole lot more respect.

 

[joG]

The PC world of betas trying to justify why others should be exactly like them. Biceps are now sexist.


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I think, as nice as they might be, that showing off your boobs is sexist! But I don't want it stopped! So there!!

 

[Henrin]

Yeah, from voting rights to anyone with a dick is a rapist...

We've come so far!

 

[WCH]

Wow just when women were getting bigger blceps ....:roll: