Men Taking Classes to Unlearn Toxic Masculinity

Rush: Don’t misunderstand. We still have liberal orthodoxy, progressive orthodoxy as the defining element of American culture. Now, look at this. The number of times that I’ve brought this up, and I have people sending me emails, “You know, you’re crazy. … from a website called The Cut. “The Men Taking Classes to Unlearn Toxic Masculinity — For some time, Stephen Hicks had felt like something was off. ‘My relationship ended, then a lot of things started collapsing in front of me,’ Hicks says.

“He began attending therapy, which made him realize that he needed to make a bigger change: ‘I wasn’t doing really terrible things, but I also wasn’t being the most ideal Stephen I could be,’ he says. ‘The bar is really lowered for cisgender guys.’” Do you know what “cisgender” means yet? You ever heard of “cisgender”? Well, there’s transgender, and there’s post-gender. Cisgender, C-I-S, means you are how you were born. So if you were born a guy, you’re a cisgender male.

If you were born a female but became a guy with an addadictomy, you have become a transgender male. So the butchering of the language continues. “Okay, you’re born a guy.” “No, no! You’re cisgender.” You might become transgender sometime. You’re cis, C-I-S, gender.

“So earlier this year, Hicks signed up for the pilot Rethink Masculinity class, a partnership between the Washington, D.C., Rape Crisis Center, Collective Action for Safe Spaces, and ReThink, an organization that works to prevent sexual assault. The program bills itself as a class where men ‘learn how social constructs of masculinity harm them and the people around them, and work to construct healthier masculinities.’ Or, as Hicks puts it, ‘It was eight weeks of guys discussing how they can address their actions with better self-awareness and less toxicity.’”

In other words, these guys are willfully signing up to be talked out of being men.

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