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Recently, Stephen Hicks felt that something was off. "My relationship
ended, so many things collapsed before me," says Hicks. He started to take
treatment, which made him realize he needed to make a bigger change: "I was
not really terrible things, but I was not so I could be the most ideal
Stephen "he said. "The bar is really down to the guys cisgender. "
So earlier this year, Hicks signed for the pilot class Rethink Masculinity,
a partnership between the Washington, DC Rape Crisis Center, Community
Action for safe spaces and ReThink, an organization that works to prevent
sexual assault.
The program bills itself as a class where people "learn social
constructions hurt them masculinity and people around them, and work to
build healthier masculinities. "Or, as Hicks said," It was eight weeks of
guys discuss how they can respond to their actions with greater
self-awareness and less toxicity ".
"We talked about the emotional work, consent, violence, communication,
empathy and vulnerability," he added, noting that the last subject, in
particular, was a struggle for him: "[I] trained and conditioned to be more
and more difficult ".
The Rethink program is the latest in a growing number of courses targeted
toward people who identify as men, including the men's project at the
University of Wisconsin, 101 Masculinity Brown, and the project to the Duke
of Duke men. The goal, proponents say, is to help people to examine their
own biases and behaviors to reduce misogyny and violence based on gender.
There is no doubt that the problems of these classes are designed to
address are ubiquitous - a reality that has been particularly painful in
recent days and weeks, Harvey Weinstein revelations have prompted
discussions of sexual assault and harassment the forefront. But a class
really enough to chip away at something so entrenched?
"This is a promising approach," says Eric Mankowski, deputy chairman of the
psychology department at Portland State University and kind of leader and
the violence of the intervention of the school's research team, "but we do
not know if they prevent sexual violence. Some studies show promising
effects on attitudes and behavioral intentions, but one class is unlikely
to undo years of socialization in the toxic masculinity ".
Over the past 25 years, Mankowski taught a course entitled Psychology of
Men and Masculinities, which, he said, "deconstruct [s] how masculinity is
socialized as a performative mask rather than a biological imperative. "He
argues that the concept of" toxic masculinity "has four main components:
the removal of all female stereotype; suppression of emotions related to
vulnerability, such as fear, sadness, or helplessness; the domination of
men over women and other men; and aggression.
"Of these four distal expectations are attitudes and proximal behaviors,
such as" I deserve to have access to women's bodies, "he says. "What we do
not know whether it is more effective for treating distal or proximal ideas
and behaviors. "Mankowski says alcohol abuse is a perfect example. "It
numbs feelings and allows men to be aggressive. We can respond effectively,
but we are not addressing the underlying issue. It is run to help them
display their masculinity, so why do they stop? "
"We have spent many years and apply to victims of the behavior of victims,
but ethically and in terms of efficiency, it is incomplete," he added. "We
must address the roots. "And while the course evaluations show that
students generally absorb what he teaches, Mankowski notes, this does not
necessarily mean that the class made a difference in the real world:" It
can change beliefs about gender, "says -it, "but is this change in
behavior? "
It's not cheap, but it is not impossible either. Research consistently
shows that holding sexist attitudes is associated with gender violence, for
example, so it is not unreasonable to hope that better beliefs can lead to
better behavior. Studies have also shown that bystander intervention
training - a subject covered in the Rethink classes - can be effective in
reducing the incidence of sexual assault.
On the other hand, however, these classes are on land. Try to cancel the
value of one life on how to act at home, at work and in public - this is an
ambitious goal, especially when so much of what participants meet outside
the room class is in contradiction with what they learn inside. And some of
the expected results - increased vulnerability, greater emotional openness
- are difficult to measure.
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