Texas A&M University on Friday announced it is ending its programs in women’s and gender studies as part of a broader effort to eliminate teaching related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and canceled six to comply with a policy adopted last November that prohibits, without approval from the campus president, teaching that “will advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Ira Dworkin, an associate professor of English at Texas A&M and vice president of the American Association of University Professors at the university’s flagship College Station campus, condemned the move as an unprecedented political interference by the university’s board of regents, all of whom were appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican.
Well honestly that probably would have been hugely beneficial. How many of these MAGATs are the incel men that have been shat on by society? Men are always told we don’t go to therapy and blah blah… if we as a society focused on the toxic environment men are raised in more it could slow down this death spiral were are in as a species.
Ironically, this is one example of a place where feminism benefits men. It aims to remove the stigma of vulnerability being a womanly trait, which opens it up for men to be more vulnerable
Love seeing this acknowledged. So many of the societal harms we trace back to men and then we fail to engage with why men end up that way.
We do men and boys an enormous disservice by essentially raising them to be emotionally stunted and interpersonally dysfunctional. And then they grow up and they subject more boys to the abuse that was normalized to them- because hurt people inflict more hurt on others.
But if you say the word “patriarchy”, men who are deeply hurting under said patriarchy will disengage and treat the idea as a threat to be defeated because they, like everyone else, are a product of their socialization, and their socialization teaches them that of they fail to measure up to the rubric of masculinity, they are a failure, and that masculinity is the ideal. Questioning that is a non-option.
If you wanna address those societal harms you have to start by raising generations of healthier boys and men, and protecting them from the abuse that is the normal response when those men and boys try to learn how to engage with their emotions.
Shit makes me sad. And instead of engaging with men’s issues in addition to women’s, our government decides we should just stop engaging with women’s issues, because this admin is patriarchy incarnate. No questioning the status quo.