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Straight White Males are Bad

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You know what? Chicken butt.
WTF?

So embarrassing this class is at such a fine school like tOSU.



Ohio State course reprimands white heterosexual masculinity
AMANDA TIDWELL - OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
JANUARY 16, 2018


Masculinity simultaneously harms yet privileges men, syllabus states

A class taught this spring at Ohio State University will review a parade of reasons why white heterosexual masculinity is allegedly problematic, tackling the topic from the constructs of racial issues, bullying, pop culture, societal expectations and much more, according to its syllabus.

The course, “Be a Man! Masculinities, Race and Nation,” includes a variety of readings to that end, including its required textbook “Dude, You’re a Fag!” by C.J. Pascoe, which analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process, but sexual one, its Amazon description states.

Other assigned reading excerpts include: “Masculinity as Homophobia” by Michael Kimmel; “Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity” by Jackson Katz; “Dude Sex: Dudes Who Have Sex with Dudes” by Jane Ward; “Looking for My Penis” by Richard Fung; “Sodomy in the New World” by Jonathan Goldberg; and “Teaching Men’s Anal Pleasure” by Susan Stiritz.

The class is also expected to screen “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” the dashcam footage of Philando Castile’s murder, Key & Peele’s “Hoodie Skit,” and an episode of “The New Normal.”

The course is ultimately presented as a study in “feminist masculinity” that seeks to explain how ideas about masculinity “simultaneously harm yet privilege” men, the syllabus states. It also aims to explain how “beliefs regarding masculinity serve to justify certain kinds of violence by men against others, and violence against particular groups of men.”

Before outlining any academic criteria of the course, the syllabus states that the class meets “on land taken by force from Native Americans.” On the first day of the “Be a Man!” class in early January, students went over a “male privilege checklist,” according to the syllabus.

The course was created and is taught by Jonathan Branfman. Branfman is a doctoral candidate in Ohio State’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a recent recipient of a 2017-18 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given to students by the OSU Graduate School, according the the department’s website.



http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40991/
 
Generalization, misrepresentation, and overreaction for the purpose of rejecting any sort of self reflection and critical thinking about societal issues is bad.

Are you referring to the initial post, the class being offered, or 98% of all social media debates?
 
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WTF?


The course was created and is taught by Jonathan Branfman. Branfman is a doctoral candidate in Ohio State’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a recent recipient of a 2017-18 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given to students by the OSU Graduate School, according the the department’s website.



http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40991/

Don't guess I get to bitch about Mr. Branfman not having the ovaries to qualify him to discuss Women's issues.

But don't mind me. Over the past 24-hours or so I've defaulted to my customary condition of hating absolutely everybody.
 
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WTF?

So embarrassing this class is at such a fine school like tOSU.



Ohio State course reprimands white heterosexual masculinity
AMANDA TIDWELL - OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
JANUARY 16, 2018


Masculinity simultaneously harms yet privileges men, syllabus states

A class taught this spring at Ohio State University will review a parade of reasons why white heterosexual masculinity is allegedly problematic, tackling the topic from the constructs of racial issues, bullying, pop culture, societal expectations and much more, according to its syllabus.

The course, “Be a Man! Masculinities, Race and Nation,” includes a variety of readings to that end, including its required textbook “Dude, You’re a Fag!” by C.J. Pascoe, which analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process, but sexual one, its Amazon description states.

Other assigned reading excerpts include: “Masculinity as Homophobia” by Michael Kimmel; “Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity” by Jackson Katz; “Dude Sex: Dudes Who Have Sex with Dudes” by Jane Ward; “Looking for My Penis” by Richard Fung; “Sodomy in the New World” by Jonathan Goldberg; and “Teaching Men’s Anal Pleasure” by Susan Stiritz.

The class is also expected to screen “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” the dashcam footage of Philando Castile’s murder, Key & Peele’s “Hoodie Skit,” and an episode of “The New Normal.”

The course is ultimately presented as a study in “feminist masculinity” that seeks to explain how ideas about masculinity “simultaneously harm yet privilege” men, the syllabus states. It also aims to explain how “beliefs regarding masculinity serve to justify certain kinds of violence by men against others, and violence against particular groups of men.”

Before outlining any academic criteria of the course, the syllabus states that the class meets “on land taken by force from Native Americans.” On the first day of the “Be a Man!” class in early January, students went over a “male privilege checklist,” according to the syllabus.

The course was created and is taught by Jonathan Branfman. Branfman is a doctoral candidate in Ohio State’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a recent recipient of a 2017-18 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given to students by the OSU Graduate School, according the the department’s website.



http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40991/

Navel-gazing buzz-phrase ("feminist masculinity"? Really?) courses of this ilk have been part of the college experience for decades (and not just on the "progressive" side of the political spectrum), and in moderation they're probably actually useful and even personally horizon-expanding. That said, I'm both amused and saddened that the prevailing view in both academia and politics seems to be that since telling individual human beings that they suck because of their immutable characteristics has worked out so awesomely when inflicted on people other than straight, white, Christian males, that making that "shaming" behavior universal rather than eradicating it is an improvement. I also feel sorry for anyone who actually makes a full-blown career out of any sort of [insert any combination of ethnicity-gender-sexuality-disability-race-religion-dietary choice-political affiliation . . . here] identify politics: I don't know that any of those folks seem to be in the least bit happy.
 
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You can if I get to question whether Susan Stiritz has the prostatory qualifications to be “Teaching Men’s Anal Pleasure”.

Unfamiliar as I was with her work, I had to look up Ms. Stiritz--finding it wonderfully appropriate, as well as mildly hilarious, to discover she pursues her research at Washington University's Brown School.
 
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“The goals of this course are both scholarly and practical. On a scholarly level, students will trace the scholarly debates about masculinity, and understand how these questions have emerged out of feminist and queer research. On a practical level, this knowledge may help students to understand the ideologies they encounter in daily life. In turn, this understanding may help students to navigate the pressures, exclusions and violence they face in order to enhance their own wellbeing and others,” the syllabus states.

Sounds terrible.
 
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