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C C

Nov 1, 2017 11:08 PM
Prof declares that 'masculinity itself' is 'the problem'
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10068

EXCERPT: A feminist professor at Occidental College recently argued that men must renounce their masculinity and “denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it.” Lisa Wade rejects the notion of "toxic masculinity," saying it is time to recognize that "it is masculinity itself that has become the problem."

[...] More recently, Wade called for fraternities to be abolished because they “hoard power” for “wealthy white men,” and noted that she doesn’t “think it is a good idea to be encouraging young males to identify specifically as men.”

MORE: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10068


Fox News employees say their network's Russia coverage was 'an embarrassment'
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/media/fo...index.html

EXCERPT: [...] On Monday, it was revealed that President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and another associate Rick Gates had been indicted by a grand jury on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the United States. Unsealed court records also revealed that another Trump associate, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI weeks ago. [...]

"I'm watching now and screaming," one Fox News personality said in a text message to CNN as the person watched their network's coverage. "I want to quit."

"It is another blow to journalists at Fox who come in every day wanting to cover the news in a fair and objective way," one senior Fox News employee told CNN of their outlet's coverage, adding that there were "many eye rolls" in the newsroom over how the news was covered. The person said, "Fox feels like an extension of the Trump White House."

The employees spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. A Fox News spokesperson told CNN the network covered the breaking news accurately and fairly across both news and opinion programming....

MORE: http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/media/fo...index.html

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Syne

Nov 2, 2017 01:33 AM
Misandry, plain and simple. If any guy tried to say anything like that about femininity, he'd be socially lynched. Rightfully so, and the appropriate response to this sexist professor.
I don't watch Fox News, but as far as finding anything impeachable/indictable on Trump, the investigation is a witch hunt.

Yazata

Nov 2, 2017 05:14 PM
I'm not inclined to believe that anything that CNN says about Fox, since it will probably be partisan-biased bullshit. They supposedly communicated with a "Fox News personality" and with a "senior Fox News employee", but (predictably) won't name them. That's how journalism typically seems to work, it's always anonymous "sources".

It's especially obvious when the topic is politically charged. With conventional news items, the media normally tell you where they got their information. But when it's a hit-piece or a smear, it's always unnamed "sources". Leaving readers with no ability to judge the reliability of the source or to assess the source's own motives in talking to the press.

So we routinely read phrases like "according to top-secret documents" in publications like the New York Times. If anyone inquires into how the New York Times has access to "top secret documents" in the first place (if they did, then that would be the story, not the content of the documents.) the response is always "FIRST AMENDMENT! FIRST AMENDMENT!!"

So everything they say always reduces to a simple "Trust Us!! We are professional journalists!".

Well, I don't trust them or their profession.

As for the hysterical female Occidental professor the real story is that she is a professor. How did somebody as crazily sexist as this get a professorial gig at a school with a fairly good academic reputation? In my opinion, it's just further evidence of the continuing degradation and politicization of higher education.

https://www.oxy.edu/faculty/lisa-wade

She teaches Sociology, a subject with little credible intellectual content that has been shamelessly politicized over the last generation. (Sociology still purports to be a 'science' and still wants to glory in the prestige of the white-coats, but many sociology departments are little more than training programs for activists these days.) She does have a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. I'm unfamiliar with its reputation in sociology, but Wisconsin has a strong reputation in other subjects of more interest to me. But I'd be willing to bet that her sex (oops, gender) and her politics probably had a lot to do with her being hired. Occidental probably wanted to hire a female and wanted a feminist as well.

Syne

Nov 2, 2017 09:00 PM
Another great post, Yaz.

RainbowUnicorn

Nov 6, 2017 01:09 PM
(Nov 1, 2017 11:08 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]Prof declares that 'masculinity itself' is 'the problem'
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10068

EXCERPT: A feminist professor at Occidental College recently argued that men must renounce their masculinity and “denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it.” Lisa Wade rejects the notion of "toxic masculinity," saying it is time to recognize that "it is masculinity itself that has become the problem."

[...] More recently, Wade called for fraternities to be abolished because they “hoard power” for “wealthy white men,” and noted that she doesn’t “think it is a good idea to be encouraging young males to identify specifically as men.”

MORE: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10068


Equally Femininity as it is a patriarchal construct of gender division to render inequality as a mandate of natural selection.
(Nov 1, 2017 11:08 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]Prof declares that 'masculinity itself' is 'the problem'
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10068

EXCERPT: A feminist professor at Occidental College recently argued that men must renounce their masculinity and “denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it.” Lisa Wade rejects the notion of "toxic masculinity," saying it is time to recognize that "it is masculinity itself that has become the problem."

[...] More recently, Wade called for fraternities to be abolished because they “hoard power” for “wealthy white men,” and noted that she doesn’t “think it is a good idea to be encouraging young males to identify specifically as men.”

MORE: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10068

FYI
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8229
Quote:Toni Airaksinen
New York Campus Correspondent
Toni Airaksinen is a New York Campus Correspondent, and reports liberal bias and abuse on college campuses for Campus Reform. She is a junior at Barnard College, and also contributes regularly to The College Fix, USA Today College, Red Alert Politics, and Quillette Magazine. She formerly held a post with the Columbia Spectator and has been featured on Fox News and on the Drudge Report.
LoL
looks like an alt-right (fauxe news troll?)troll masqurading as a reporter. NOTE only focus is on
the alt-right trinity of the anti-women, anti-LGBTQ & Anti-racial equality(with a side serving of anti intellectual culture) 1 years worth almost to the date...
CC where have you been sourching your reading material LoL ?

269 Articles by Toni Airaksinen

Syne

Nov 6, 2017 06:46 PM
That's a lot of work (spam) to discredit a source. You know, poisoning the well (fallacy) in lieu of actual refute.

C C

Nov 6, 2017 07:31 PM
(Nov 6, 2017 01:09 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]FYI
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8229
Quote:Toni Airaksinen
New York Campus Correspondent
Toni Airaksinen is a New York Campus Correspondent, and reports liberal bias and abuse on college campuses for Campus Reform. She is a junior at Barnard College, and also contributes regularly to The College Fix, USA Today College, Red Alert Politics, and Quillette Magazine. She formerly held a post with the Columbia Spectator and has been featured on Fox News and on the Drudge Report.


Faux news? It's in Lisa Wade's own essay below. Can't negate that via either ad hominem fallacy or skepticism of source. Toni Airaksinen's account doesn't even overtly pass
a negative judgment upon it (because that's apparently still accomplished via leaving readers to infer whatever they want according to their own perspectives, bias, etc).

"Campus Reform" indeed has an underlying political stance but so does just about any special-category news outlet these days that a coin tossed at random lands on. The messenger's personal orientations can't be used to retroactively shield or nullify the author of the original information. That one would desire to do so to begin with seems to imply that even those who either understand or identify with Lisa Wade's views feel perversely concerned that she violated some tenet of the Social Utopian Micro-management culture of today.  

THE BIG PICTURE: CONFRONTING MANHOOD AFTER TRUMP http://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-c...ood-trump/

[...] In fact, Trump’s masculinity is what we call a toxic masculinity. In the pre-Trump era, the modifier was used to differentiate bad masculine ideals from good ones. Toxic masculinities, some claimed, were behind sexual assault, mass shootings, and the weird thing where men refuse to wear sunscreen, but they didn’t reflect masculinity generally, so one had to leave that idea alone. But we can only give masculinity so many modifiers for so long before we have to confront the possibility that it is masculinity itself that has become the problem. [...]

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