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The ‘Healthy Masculinity Club’ at a Portland high school is described as a “place for guys to not be guys” while the ‘Healthy Masculinity’ class at Montpelier High School in Vermont indoctrinates boys on “how traditional concepts of masculinity have harmed women.”
The ‘Healthy Masculinity’ movement is a component of DEI, but it has attracted less attention and controversy than other ‘woke’ indoctrination programs that target ‘whiteness’ and teach racism or promote pornographic sexual identity programming. Nevertheless it may be even more destructive than all of the other high school DEI programs put together.
Much like ‘whiteness’ courses, the premise of ‘Healthy Masculinity’ is that there is something wrong with being a man. A Call to Men, for example, defines masculinity as a ‘Man Box’ in which men are “expected to be strong, successful, powerful, dominating, fearless, in control, and emotionless” that men have to “break out of” to end their ‘toxic masculinity’.
The Tucson Unified School District in Arizona promotes A Call to Men’s lesson materials that teach that all men and boys are complicit in violence against women and girls and that “the Man Box does not allow us to be fully human.” Vulnerable boys are programmed to repeat the cultlike mantra, “I was taught gender norms which means I can unlearn it and teach myself to be free.”
Such classes, for now mostly elective, analyze manhood through the Marxist model of power relations and come away with the conclusion that everything wrong with the world is due to men or ‘toxic masculinity’ and could be fixed by ‘unmanning’ men. It’s hard to think of a worse message to feed developing teenage boys, but that’s exactly what schools are doing.
‘Healthy Masculinity’ courses are part of the larger woke deconstruction of sex as a set of artificial constructs. To be a boy or a man, students are told, is not a natural biological phenomenon, but a set of artificial warped ideas about masculinity or ‘toxic masculinity’. And the goal of ‘Healthy Masculinity’ is to teach boys to unlearn those ideas and to stop being men.
According to ‘Healthy Masculinity’ course material, traditional heroic attributes such as ‘playing through the pain’, ‘controlling emotions’ and ‘seeking to control situations’ are toxic masculinity. While ‘healthy masculinity’ involved deconstructing societal gender norms and crying a lot.
For example, California’s LGBTQ History curriculum includes a lesson plan produced by two women describing ‘toxic masculinity” as “traditional, cultural masculine norms, particularly those that devalue emotion and prioritize strength and stoicism.” These same narratives are promoted by First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who also heads the Representation Project and was responsible for ‘The Mask You Live In’ film.
The Representation Project claims to be the “leading gender watchdog” and promotes a “#BoysWillBeBoys Healthy Masculinities Campaign” to allow boys “to achieve their full human potential, free from restrictive masculinity.” Boys are not actually human. Until they free themselves from their “restrictive masculinity”, they’re less than human.
High schools now routinely push Siebel-Newsom’s ‘The Mask You Live In’ film on vulnerable boys. Its message and accompanying lesson plans attack the idea of a “gender binary” and tell boys that masculinity is limiting and forces them to give up things. Like wearing nail polish.
The hateful indoctrination in schools is as usual downstream of academia. Demonizing men has become a full-time academic profession with the American Men’s Studies Association “advancing the critical study of men and masculinities” responsible for such great academic works as “Not All Men Piss at the Wall” from the Colonial and Modern Studies Conference and “‘Damn, Channing Tatum Can Move!’: Women’s Accounts of Men’s Bodies and Objectification in Post-Feminist Times.” The Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University in New York used the “prism of feminist theory” for its own critical study of men.
‘Healthy Masculinity’ is, like ‘whiteness’ studies, bigotry cloaked in academic language and warped through the lens of Marxist power analyses. It begins with the false premise that men and boys are the cause of violence against women, while ignoring the fact that it is men who protect women and girls against violence. The warrior and the soldier, the heroic traits stigmatized as ‘toxic masculinity’, are what keep society safe from actual evil around us.
The promoters of ‘Healthy Masculinity’ are not actually concerned about violence against women because they also support pro-crime policies like ‘criminal justice reform’ which has defunded the police and set criminals loose to assault women. The infrastructure of ‘Healthy Masculinity’ quickly shifts away from protecting women and girls to deconstructing gender norms and to insisting that men can be women if they really put their minds to it. The transgender movement is devastating women’s sports and threatening the lives of women
The core academic premise of the ‘Healthy Masculinity’ movement is that women also don’t exist. Much as socialism comes cloaked in anti-capitalist discourse, the elimination of what radical sexual identity activists consider to be the ‘gender binary’ is preceded by stigmatizing men, but the movement has just as little use for ‘femininity’ as it does for ‘masculinity’.
The attacks on the so-called ‘gender binary’ have already led to heightened suicide rates among both boys and girls, as well as self-mutilation through the transgender movement and school shootings. There’s nothing healthy about ‘Healthy Masculinity’ for boys or for anyone else.
Schools should not be stigmatizing students based on their race or their sex. ‘Healthy Masculinity’ is just another example of toxic wokeness which flouts basic civil rights norms while spreading hate among a highly vulnerable population of teenagers. Just as there should be no classes stigmatizing black students or girls, there should be no room for classes that stigmatize white students or boys. ‘Healthy Masculinity’ is hate and hate should have no place in school.
Classes that need to be avoided Parents need to be more ware what kind of stuff their teaching the Youth of Today. Toxic Leftism
Exactly. Thanks Spurwing !!!
In olden days some elders encouraged young boys to be masculine.
This is Marxist brainwashing 101
I recently had to punish a young boy of ten who had “accidentally” punched a girl. Having given him a real rollicking and saying that boys should never hit girls he replied that girls were as strong as boys.
That’s what they are taught and it won’t end well for lots of young boys.
Thanks Mo, excellent example.
America is now a Roman Circus.
or for young girls……..
I am very pleased to know well above fifty young men (14 to about 20) living in Multnomah and Clacmamas County, who are the antithesis of the “males” described in this pice. these young men are close friends.. they are articulate, masculine, intelligent, good communicators, generous, literate, active, take good care of their sisters and female frends, ……They know how to work hard, build things, are creative, generous, great friends. I also am pleased to know their Fathers… and have since those MEN were about thea ges their sins are now, These men are amongst my closest friends and have been since they were the ages of their sons now. They all realise the decay in our culture and stand agaisnt it as they can. I am convinced these men, fathers and sons, are the best hope for the future of that part of the country. And I believe hey are aware of that, too.
Please note! “Drag queen” story hour teaches young children that women are misshapen, ugly, prostitutes creatures to be despised and mocked…they culturally appropriate all that is beautiful about motherhood and demean families by portraying men as clownish barroom women given over to all that is disreputable…these men are spiteful against women at best and display hatred not trangenderism…real people with dysphoria are not served by these clowns and cannot hide their hatred of all things moral and good.
“The reprobate mind” of St. Paul’s warning to the New Testament church at Rome (circa.53 A.D.) is in the above on full display. Having overthrown all moral guidelines, these reprobates destroy anyone who comes under their spell.
For the five stages of the ‘development; of the ‘reprobate mind’ see the New Testament’s Romans 1:18-32.
1. overthrow every moral authority, 2. create an artificial god or embrace atheism, 3. become sexually promiscuous, 4. approve homosexuality, 5. manifest and approve all perversions.
Emile Durkheim’s study on suicide describes the above as ‘anomie’, the consequence of a reprobate mind.
I can only guess what your opinion is. Who is paying you to be this stupid?
Well, it is Portland after all. Can you imagine taking “Healthy Masculinity” lessons from that hag holding up the Toxic Masculinity sign?
That hag is classically ugly. A Toxic Feminist.
Jazz Jennnings, an anorgasmic eunuch with no libido, is the Left’s notion of “healthy masculinity” and a role model to boys.
Well, you can say goodbye to erections. But that has always what is has been about anyway, in part, at least.
Oh… I don’t think they’re gonna beat ’em down that easy.
In her book “Intercourse” published in 1987, Andrea Dworkin described coitus as “pure, sterile contempt for women” and described an erect penis as an existential threat to women everywhere.
Andrea Dworkin, that fabled object of male desire?
There was a time when SCHOOL didn’t NEED to have classes on anything other than Reading, Writing, Math, Science, History, Home Economics, Machine Shop, Auto Repair Shop, Carpentry, and Foreign Languages! All the MANLY and WOMANLY stuff was taught – AT HOME – by the Mommies and Daddies!
Stable HOMES are NOT in the PRIORITY of the DEMOcrats – more dysfunctional homes with NO DADDIES and in way too many cases, unfit “mommies” add to the DECAY of Our Nation! WHY?? WHY do the DEMOcrats seek to DESTROY rather than BUILD?? MENTAL ILLNESS! That is the ONLY explanation – MENTAL ILLNESS and EVIL!!
The answer to “Why?” is because they are destructionists. Their whole orientation is to tear down all that exists. They have some vague notion of the society they want to have after they’ve clear cut all that exists but no plan on how to achieve it or idea how it would work. It just would. Take their word for it.
The goal is to just to destroy it c/ it’s all “corrupt. “
“All the MANLY and WOMANLY stuff was taught – AT HOME – by the Mommies and Daddies!”
Exactly. That’s why they spend so much time separating the children from the parents, ‘correcting’ that thinking, to at least outward acceptance of leftist orthodoxy. Little time and effort is left for teaching the actual subjects, and letting the students work them.
Maybe we need to discuss toxic femininity. Some of the most toxic people on earth are female leftists.
Useful skills such as applying math and physics to solve real problems, learning to read, write, speak and understand English or other languages, playing the flute, piano, or guitar, programming a computer, playing golf, tennis or other skill sports can NOT be “taught” they must LEARNED. A skilled “teacher” or “coach” can expedite to a degree the construction of knowledge by the learner. “Studies” course are simply about indoctrination. “You WILL remember and recite on tests that which the I (the teacher believe) if you want to pass. “
Some betaboy or woman is going to teach me how to be a man? It’s funny that the ‘smart people’ need classes in how to be a man or woman, from people that can’t even differentiate between a man and woman. But then, the ‘smart people’ need a class to figure out how to put on a condom.
Raising children requires inoculation against leftism. It’s basically right and wrong, the nature of rights and privileges, and what constitutes theft, which really isn’t complicated, even a child can understand it. Once it’s understood, no ammount of convoluted sophistry can get by it.