Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Anti-Masculinity Indoctrination At UT

This is appalling.
But it's par for the course.
Look, I actually think that there are some interesting things to say about gender, including masculinity. There's 10,000 times too much of that shit in universities right now, and it's typically done very, very badly. Badly enough that it's probably worse than nothing at all. Badly enough to make its victims...er...students...dumber. But that doesn't mean it can't be done well--and it sometimes is.
   But there's no excuse for this stuff like the UT thing. This has nothing to do with the telos of the university. Universities shouldn't be conducting programs aimed at social change. Especially politically non-neutral social change. And, I'm almost tempted to say: especially crackpot lefty social change, which I now am tempted to say is the most destructive kind. But really, that last bit is just anger. We should stop with: they shouldn't be doing any of it.
   A counterpoint: what about pushing points about sexual consent? Yeah, yeah, ok. If that were done more sanely...well...campus drinking-and-hookup culture seems to have made that a possible emergency that has to be dealt with. There's no excuse for wasting resources on this masculinity shit. And don't try to link it up with the other topic. No stretching.
   Pushing this anti-masculinity nonsense is no better than pushing Pentecostalism or Scientology.

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