Mental Health Perspectives: Toxic Masculinity
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Description
University of Texas to Treat Masculinity as a 'Mental Health' Issue The Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin recently launched a new program to...
show moreThe Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin recently launched a new program to help male students “take control over their gender identity and develop a healthy sense of masculinity.” Treating masculinity as if it were a mental health crisis, “MasculinUT” is organized by the school’s counseling staff and most recently organized a poster series encouraging students to develop a “healthy model of masculinity.”
The program is predicated on a critique of so-called “restrictive masculinity.” Men, the program argues, suffer when they are told to “act like a man” or when they are encouraged to fulfill traditional gender roles, such as being “successful” or “the breadwinner.”
Questions
Do you think that masculinity is a mental health disorder?
What are some examples of healthy, mature masculinity and healthy, mature femininity?
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