Shocking anti-male hatred on the SFU campus

[Bill Whatcott]

University Feminists to men: Shut Up! We don't want to here how men are 4 times more likely to commit suicide, will be 10 times more likely to be removed from the lives of your children and crushed financially by the courts. We don't want to hear how men are 2 times less likely to enroll in university or how many men are sick of the constant negative anti-male depictions in western media and academia.

False, feminist propaganda and gender discrimination is an issue on all campuses across the country. My inclination is I would rather see an end of all so-called "women's studies" programs and "women's centres," than see a rise in equivalent "Men's Studies" and "Men's Centres." The academic left has been pushing gender and racial disharmony for years and the toxic myths and perceptions they pedal have had a real effect. During my studies at Grant MacEwan University we had to do role plays where white males were always perpetrators of racism and sexism and never victims. I saw some angry aboriginal students who bought the left's Kool-Aid, it made a positive relationship with them harder to attain. White males did three things while I was at Grant MacEwan, drop out (they were underrepresented in most university programs), neutered themselves and adopted the politically correct line; I had a few white males privately agree with me, but in class loudly mouth the academic propaganda for the simple reason they felt it would get them ahead. I rebelled against the Marxist race bating and anti-white male sexism being pedaled and was pretty much demonized for doing so. University was one of the worse experiences of my life. Reform is needed!
Bill Whatcott

Shocking anti-male hatred on the SFU campus
Robyn Urback,
National Post
May 20, 2012
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... /#Comments

The student union at Simon Fraser University in B.C. has made the apparently contentious decision to finance the creation of a Men’s Centre on campus. Motivated, surely, by deep-seeated patriarchal values, the union approved a budget of $30,000 to launch the project — the exact same amount conferred on the university’s Women’s Centre, which was established back in 1974. The idea for the Men’s Centre was proposed by fifth-year accounting student Keenan Midgley, who told SFU’s student newspaper that he believes men, too, are entitled to safe space on campus.

Unsurprisingly, however, not everyone at SFU is thrilled with the decision. The Women’s Centre, for one, coolly brushed off the idea of a stand-alone Men’s Centre on its website, simply stating that, “the men’s centre is everywhere else.” They did say they would welcome a men’s centre that focused on “challenging popular conceptions about masculinity, confronting homophobia, sexism, racism, classism, and ability issues.” In contrast, they would oppose a men’s centre that “focussed on maintaining the old boys club … that promotes the status quo, encourages sexual assault, or fosters an atmosphere of competition and violence.” Oh. OK, then. Good to know.

Several other students have taken a more direct approach, compiling their objections to the Men’s Centre in widely-circulated five-minute YouTube video. Deeming the project “not financially responsible,” students take turns expressing their grievances. One woman with seemingly impeccable foresight declares that, “The Men’s Centre will end up being a place to celebrate hegemonic masculinity.” She later attacks the credibility of the Centre’s proponents, scoffing that they have, “no experience being in a gender-studies class.”

Men, too, join in the criticism of the proposed Centre, one curiously warning that it may “become a highly masculinized space.” Another cautions that the project risks creating a “heteronormative space,” while yet another critical male dismisses the Men’s Centre as simply, “a room with a PS3 and a bunch of douchebags playing games.”

Bravo, students. In your attempt to decry the proposed Men’s Centre on all of its supposed merits, you have effectively demonstrated why such a space is so very necessary. At present, there is only one other Canadian campus with an official support centre for men — the Men’s Resource Centre at the University of Manitoba. Judging by the crass sociology catch phrases in the aforementioned video, the consensus is that young men don’t need community resources or support. That is a myth.

While statistics show that comparatively, far fewer university-aged men are diagnosed with depression than women, the rate of suicide among men is four times as great. It’s not hard to connect the dots: men are suffering in silence. And it’s not hard, either, to see why. If the assumption on campus is that men have no use for a resource centre other than meeting up with new PlayStation buddies, it becomes that much more difficult for them to break down the barrier of bravado.

Men, like women, struggle with issues of victimization, anxiety, and depression, but they must battle in addition with a societal expectation of stoicism. In short — it’s not manly to talk about your feelings. And it’s precisely for that reason that a Men’s Centre on campus is such a necessary initiative.

If brought to fruition, the Men’s Centre at SFU might also come with additional boons; namely, the latent effect of debunking some of the prejudicial, discriminatory, and misandrous views (see kids? I can play too) so blatantly expressed in the YouTube video.

Of course, I don’t have a gender studies degree, so consider it mere speculation.

National Post

Robyn Urback is a Toronto-based writer.

[Bill Whatcott]

SFU feminists say "Shut Up" to male students
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/fe ... -students/

Simon Fraser University may become one of the first universities in the world to establish a men’s centre. The logical complement to that school’s women’s centre – an established features which almost all universities have had for decades. When asked why there is no men’s centre, the comfortably funded and long established women’s centre’s advocates claim “the men’s centre is everywhere else”. In spite of the fact that men are overwhelming the targets of violent crime in all areas of life, according to the women’s centre FAQ: “The simple answer is that the men’s centre is everywhere else.”[1]

Men are privileged, men are privileged, men are privileged, men are privileged, men are privileged, men are privileged – which is why when men speak up, they are told to shut up, sit down and go to the back of the line. Men have the privilege of not being aware of their privilege, until told in sneering tones that male privilege is what means men should must man up and shut their mouths. I looked up the word privilege while writing this, just to check the meaning hadn’t been officially altered.

According to the FAQ page on the SFU Women’s Center website, “the men’s centre is everywhere else”. But this “everywhere else” reflects the public climate in which, without blushing, or a nod to self satire – the women’s centre FAQ includes the statement that “We are not interested in seeing a group or centre develop that promotes the status quo, encourages sexual assault, or fosters an atmosphere of competition and violence.”

Suggesting that fostering violence or encouraging sexual assault was ever, or ever would be a goal of a men’s centre. This is naked and despicable anti-male hatred expressed from a position of such comfort, and dominance it’s authors do not even bother to obfuscate it behind circumspect language.

Farther down the FAQ page of the women’s centre, male identity is defined as denigrating women. That masculinity sexually objectifies women. That masculinity is hateful, that masculinity is violent, and stifling of emotional expression. Within the FAQ: “What is the Male Allies Project” of the SFU women’s centre states:

“We know that many men are concerned with the way masculinity denigrates women by making them into sexual objects, is homophobic, encourages violence, and discourages emotional expression.”

Masculinity, the sexual identity of men, is according to the women’s centre FAQ, violent, hateful, denigrating and emotionally stunted. The male allies project then appears perfectly suited to teaching young men, forming their adult identities as they attend university, to hate themselves.

A few paragraphs farther up the page, the FAQ also includes “we believe that no one in this world should be treated as a doormat and that we are all entitled to receiving respect and social and political rights.” (emphasis mine) These two declarations found not only on the same site, but a few paragraphs apart on the same page, but both cannot be true, unless the “we” in the claim “ we are all entitled to receiving respect” is not intended to encompass men. It is after all, the women’s centre FAQ page.

On the other hand, the page includes a link to the anti male hate organization NOMAS, listed under the heading “some great websites”.

The FAQ uses the word violence 8 times. Once to suggest the disgusting lie that a proposed men’s centre would promote violence. Once to suggest that male identity is violent. Once to refer to domestic violence, which in feminist rhetoric is constantly represented with a false narrative of men as universal abusers, and women as universal victims. Four references are made to stopping violence against women, in spite of the fact that men are more likely to be the victims of violence.

But predictably, men are admonished through the language of the site to help end violence against women. Not to help end violence. No, just that against women, who, statistically, are the least targeted by violent crime.

And the public rhetoric emerging from the SFU campus is that a men’s centre is a fiscally irresponsible idea, and that a “room with a Play-Station 3 and a bunch of douche bags sitting around playing games” is what’s actually under consideration.

The male targeting hatred is so thick, even mainstream reporting is talking about it in unambiguous language. Robyn Urback of the National Post referred to ideological opposition to the proposed men’s centre as “shocking anti-male hatred on the SFU campus”[2]

Probably more shocking to some that others, but whether the SFU Men’s Centre is defeated by gender ideologues or not, male targeting hatred now has an official opposition. We are coming.

[1] http://www.sfuwomenctr.ca/faqs.html
[2] http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... fu-campus/