{"id":14198,"date":"2017-12-28T01:40:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T08:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14198"},"modified":"2017-12-28T01:40:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T08:40:49","slug":"quick-takes-emasculation-of-male-privilege-of-male-pronouns-of-masculinity-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/12\/28\/quick-takes-emasculation-of-male-privilege-of-male-pronouns-of-masculinity-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes &#8211; Emasculation: Of Male Privilege; Of Male Pronouns; Of Masculinity Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Boys not allowed!!1!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little bit of mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7iJU-S8T0-k\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Since in Academia is a preconceived axiomatic truth that biological sex is a spectrum and gender a social construct, of course &#8220;male&#8221; is the constructed oppressor class, and as such must, as an article of Social Justice faith, be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=9921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eliminated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Two Seattle Pacific University professors contend that &#8216;white male privilege&#8217; is the primary reason that few women choose to study physics in college.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Rachel Scherr and Amy Robertson, both physics professors at Seattle Pacific, argue in the October issue of Race and Physics Teaching that physics instruction is currently unfair to women because &#8216;white male privilege pervades the discipline of physics as well as the classrooms in which physics is taught and learned.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Funny how in almost all other majors, the gross disproportion of women over men is not attributed to &#8220;female privilege&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One way to get rid of that icky &#8220;maleness&#8221; is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=10084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purge it<\/a> from the language:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A professor at the University of Southern California recently published a &#8216;Diversity Toolkit\u201d to help diversity educators fight \u201cmale gendered pronouns.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Diversity Toolkit, created by USC Professor of Social Work Jeremy Goldbach, was released last week as a tool to help diversity educators facilitate discussions on issues on &#8216;diversity and the role of identity in social relationships.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The toolkit outlines six activities that educators can do with students, including one on &#8216;Creating Gender Free Nouns,&#8217; which aims to fight the use of &#8216;male gendered pronouns&#8217; by teaching students how to replace them with gender-neutral words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sounds like someone needs a lesson in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarphobia.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/its-a-woman-thing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">etymology<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And, of course, masculinity itself must be &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=10051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deconstructed<\/a>&#8221; (<em>i<\/em>.<em>e<\/em>. intentionally destroyed in with a presumptive and biased fervor):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Northwestern University plans to double the capacity of the &#8216;men\u2019s project&#8217; that it launched last year to help male students &#8216;deconstruct their own masculinity.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Each quarter since spring 2016, &#8216;NU Men&#8217; has offered 12 openings for a six-week program where men can learn how &#8216;oppression is impacted by their male or masculine identity&#8217; and how they can &#8216;contribute to stopping violence.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The balls on these academics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Emasculation: Of Male Privilege; 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