Students Confess Their Sins At ‘Masculinity Confession Booth’
A university will be hosting a “Masculinity Confession Booth” along with a number of other workshops and screenings to combat “hypermasculinity.”
“We have all reinforced hypermasculinity one way or another regardless of our gender!!” explains the University of Regina event description. “Come and share your sins so we can begin to discuss how to identify and change our ways !!!”
You’ll be sorry, after you’ve killed off the last man and then suddenly find that your airy condo full of cats, throw pillows and Andrea Dworkin books is infested with spiders and there’s nobody to stomp on them for you.
This is not the future John Varley had in mind.
What is so bad about masculinity?
I won’t be showing up at the confession booth.
On the other hand, when I clicked through to Amazon to consider the Varley book. I was more than a bit stunned that the one negative review stated that there was an incidental pedophilia theme throughout (then blatant in the title story) of older men and young girls.
As written in the review, it didn’t sound like SJW’s run amok, just scary/creepy. In light of that, if at all accurate, I was then stunned at the multiple positive reviews.
Wouldn’t want to conflate child abuse with masculinity.
Did this reviewer seriously misread the book or what?
Jerry, I may have been unclear. The Varley book is all about weird gender reallocations, but has nothing to do with SJWs.
Okay, I read the link and get it now. Masculinity =violence.
Never mind that women commit violence in roughly equal proportions to men. Their violence is excusable apparently because reasons.
(The one thing I will concede is that male violence is generally more harmful, for obvious reasons. A woman hauls off and hits a man, the result is far less damaging generally than the opposite situation )
My general confession is : “People are weird.”
Serious question: Has the general population gone SJW ever before and if so what was the outcome for where that happened?
A woman hauls off and hits a man, the result is far less damaging generally than the opposite situation
To quote from _Man of La Mancha_, “whether the stone hits the pitcher, or the pitcher hits the stone, it’s going to be bad for the pitcher”:-).
“Never mind that women commit violence in roughly equal proportions to men. Their violence is excusable apparently because reasons.” Women’s violence is no more excusable than men’s. As a foster/adoptive mother, women’s violence haunts the child for the rest of the child’s life. For some reason kids can shake of most of the male violence/beatings.
Personally, I like masculinity, please don’t give it up.
“Masculinity Confession Booth” doesn’t surprise me given that the Prime Minister of Canada is an avouched “male feminist.” This makes about as much sense as Carleton university pulling out the scales in the gym and women’s change rooms because “weighing oneself may contribute to low self esteem.” Heinlein was right, we are living in the crazy years.
I would love for those morons to do something like that near me. I would have so much fun confessing my masculinity that the lesbos would go strait (even if for one night).
In all seriousness these people are in great need of some basic education like I dunno maybe how to suck start a shotgun or maybe deep meditation with carbon monoxide.
Eric.
“Personally, I like masculinity, please don’t give it up.” Extending that train of thought, I’m a great fan of femininity. I hope it remains a common thing at least for the meager few years I have left.
Judy, just clarifying those weren’t my feelings on the matter. I was merely stating the theme of this confession event. It was kind of sarcasm/satire.
Ben,
You win, my opinion only.
QHM
Hi Joel,
Probably me that wasn’t very clear.
I meant that I was expecting the one-star review to be an SJW screed against some perceived violation of the PC code — men too manly, women too feminine, or some such outrage.
Instead, they made what seemed like a good point, so I was wondering if they’d overstated their case.
M,
If an entire population had gone SJW before, they’ve either also gone extinct without a trace or been enslaved and assimilated by their less enlightened neighbors.
Cheers
It’s been a very long time since I read the book, I only remember snatches of it and enjoying it very much (and being blown away for what was, at the time, a very transgressive premise.)
I think I read the comment you mention, and it rang a bell. I think there is a scene in the title story, The Persistence of Vision, that might technically be pedophilia, yes. (The staff and management of TUAK wishes to point out to any law enforcement officers monitoring our comments that we all really hated that part. Every one of us.) As I recall, it takes place in the midst of what might technically be an orgy, so take it as you wish.
The same commenter was apparently too shocked by the illicit sex to notice that in the same story, the girl in question later puts out the man’s eyes – as an act of kindness. So it’s not exactly something Varley was suggesting was an ideal future society.
I confess:
I built a home for my family with my own two hands. I killed animals to make food for my family. I get up at 445 every morning to go to work so I can earn a living to support my family in a tradionally male role at work. I fix my own cars, change my own oil, can run any piece of equipment (except a road grader, screw those things).
I’m a terri le person, and from here on out I’ll step back and allow women to change my oil, kill my food, and build my house for me.
What’s that you say? Women don’t want to do those jobs? Huh, must be patriarchy or something.
Please forgive my ignorance, but what’s a “terri le person”?
Oh, wait, that was supposed to be “terrible” wasn’t it?
Gah. My bad. Nevermind.
I love how we find these examples of the extreme stupid, and use it as if it was a case study in “the normal trends of the other side”.
Realize the counter of this is the “rape should be legal” groups (I’d provide reference links, but I’m at work, and um no thx).
It’s a pretty normal trend in the bigger and more influential colleges, abbie. Which probably means it’ll be the new norm among the next gen of leaders. The *current* generation of leaders already being no big aggregate prize, I see that as a bad thing.
“This is not the future John Varley had in mind.”
Maybe not…but it seems pretty close to Gene Roddenberry’s idea: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072000/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_55
Goober – “…just clarifying those weren’t my feelings on the matter.” I didn’t think they were. “I was merely stating the theme of this confession event.” That’s what I thought.
Hubby and I designed and built our house. It was me and the kids after Hubby fell of the ladder and broke his arm. I could make more money so he stayed home with the kids when they were little. You better be very, very sick for me to get up at 4:45 am. Yup, I can fix the car and change the oil but I let Hubby do it while I was the tool runner. Raise, kill, dress and cook the protein source. Plow, plant, harvest and put up the veggies and fruit. So now y’all know why I like masculinity. I don’t want to be alone with a bunch of Pajama Boys or whiny Femi-nazis!