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Why psychology is failing men
https://www.realclearscience.com/article...84337.html
EXCERPTS: . . . Daniel de Visé, a writer for The Hill, recently discussed the United States’ crisis of masculinity. “More than 60 percent of young men are single,” he noted, “nearly twice the rate of unattached young women.” This gap, he warned, signals “a larger breakdown in the social, romantic and sexual life of the American male.” He’s right. It does.
Males make up 49% of the population but 80% of suicides, according to the CDC. In the U.S., every 13.7 minutes, a man takes his own life. Young men are four times more likely than young women to commit suicide.
What can be done? Maybe more men should seek psychological help?
Sadly, however, psychology is ill-equipped to address the country’s masculinity crisis. That's because, in recent times, it has become increasingly popular to ignore evolutionary psychology, shun masculinity, and reject sex differences entirely. If in doubt, let me point you in the direction of the American Psychological Association (APA). The APA Commission on Accreditation (APA-CoA) is the primary programmatic accreditor for professional education and training in psychology. In other words, when it comes to psychological theories and treatments, the APA calls the shots. That's bad news. You see, the APA now insists that no major psychological differences between men and women exist. But they do.
[...] Thanks to the APA, psychology finds itself in the business of rejecting evidence. How can such wilful ignorance help the country's men?
Psychology isn't just struggling with a replication crisis; it's struggling with a crisis of reputation. To make matters many times worse, the current batch of therapists being educated are being fed APA-approved narratives that will do little, if anything, to help address the current crisis of masculinity - or any psychological problem for that matter... (MORE - missing details)
The U.S. should follow China's lead in promoting masculinity in schools
https://americanmind.org/salvo/making-men/
INTRO: Last year, China’s Education Ministry published plans to “cultivate masculinity” in the schools. This curriculum will be implemented across the board, from kindergarten all the way through high school. The announcement came shortly after a senior official in China declared that the country was going through a “masculinity crisis.”
One official, according to NBC, said Chinese boys had been “spoiled by housewives and female teachers.” They were fast becoming “delicate, timid and effeminate.” The “feminization” of Chinese boys, announced the official, threatened “China’s survival and development.” In China, unlike the U.S., kids are not allowed to skip gym class.
To create a new generation of men fit for purpose, students are required to engage in two hours of physical activity every day, one hour during school, one hour after. China’s ruler, Xi Jinping, is directly behind the push.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., as I have discussed before, a crisis of masculinity is also evident. If the U.S. was to take a leaf out of China’s book and teach masculinity in schools, what would such a curriculum look like?
Richard Cooper, the bestselling author of The Unplugged Alpha, thinks this question is “a bit of a stretch,” because “the West doesn’t want strong boys, and men.” He continued, “just look at how they teach them in an academic setting. The school system is actively making men weaker, and softer. Only countries like China have active academic settings to masculinize boys to men. This is something parents need to do themselves. Fathers need to lead by example. “
This suggestion about fathers resuming their traditional role in American society is not new. But considering the United States has the highest rate of single-parent households in the world, and the vast majority of these households are headed by women, Cooper’s demand for fathers to “lead by example,” although a great idea, won’t save the boys of today and the men of tomorrow.
The education system, as Cooper points out, is fundamentally broken. It views masculinity as “toxic,” something to be criticized, even eradicated, not something to be saved. This is true across society in general.
Cooper noted that, today, “masculinity is hated, shamed and vilified today to a degree never seen before in history, that is until a war, or natural disaster occurs, then all the women, children, and weak men run for safety, while virtuous men run into danger. ‘They’ say ‘toxic masculinity’ is the problem, the truth is, a lack of masculinity is the problem.” (MORE - details)
https://www.realclearscience.com/article...84337.html
EXCERPTS: . . . Daniel de Visé, a writer for The Hill, recently discussed the United States’ crisis of masculinity. “More than 60 percent of young men are single,” he noted, “nearly twice the rate of unattached young women.” This gap, he warned, signals “a larger breakdown in the social, romantic and sexual life of the American male.” He’s right. It does.
Males make up 49% of the population but 80% of suicides, according to the CDC. In the U.S., every 13.7 minutes, a man takes his own life. Young men are four times more likely than young women to commit suicide.
What can be done? Maybe more men should seek psychological help?
Sadly, however, psychology is ill-equipped to address the country’s masculinity crisis. That's because, in recent times, it has become increasingly popular to ignore evolutionary psychology, shun masculinity, and reject sex differences entirely. If in doubt, let me point you in the direction of the American Psychological Association (APA). The APA Commission on Accreditation (APA-CoA) is the primary programmatic accreditor for professional education and training in psychology. In other words, when it comes to psychological theories and treatments, the APA calls the shots. That's bad news. You see, the APA now insists that no major psychological differences between men and women exist. But they do.
[...] Thanks to the APA, psychology finds itself in the business of rejecting evidence. How can such wilful ignorance help the country's men?
Psychology isn't just struggling with a replication crisis; it's struggling with a crisis of reputation. To make matters many times worse, the current batch of therapists being educated are being fed APA-approved narratives that will do little, if anything, to help address the current crisis of masculinity - or any psychological problem for that matter... (MORE - missing details)
The U.S. should follow China's lead in promoting masculinity in schools
https://americanmind.org/salvo/making-men/
INTRO: Last year, China’s Education Ministry published plans to “cultivate masculinity” in the schools. This curriculum will be implemented across the board, from kindergarten all the way through high school. The announcement came shortly after a senior official in China declared that the country was going through a “masculinity crisis.”
One official, according to NBC, said Chinese boys had been “spoiled by housewives and female teachers.” They were fast becoming “delicate, timid and effeminate.” The “feminization” of Chinese boys, announced the official, threatened “China’s survival and development.” In China, unlike the U.S., kids are not allowed to skip gym class.
To create a new generation of men fit for purpose, students are required to engage in two hours of physical activity every day, one hour during school, one hour after. China’s ruler, Xi Jinping, is directly behind the push.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., as I have discussed before, a crisis of masculinity is also evident. If the U.S. was to take a leaf out of China’s book and teach masculinity in schools, what would such a curriculum look like?
Richard Cooper, the bestselling author of The Unplugged Alpha, thinks this question is “a bit of a stretch,” because “the West doesn’t want strong boys, and men.” He continued, “just look at how they teach them in an academic setting. The school system is actively making men weaker, and softer. Only countries like China have active academic settings to masculinize boys to men. This is something parents need to do themselves. Fathers need to lead by example. “
This suggestion about fathers resuming their traditional role in American society is not new. But considering the United States has the highest rate of single-parent households in the world, and the vast majority of these households are headed by women, Cooper’s demand for fathers to “lead by example,” although a great idea, won’t save the boys of today and the men of tomorrow.
The education system, as Cooper points out, is fundamentally broken. It views masculinity as “toxic,” something to be criticized, even eradicated, not something to be saved. This is true across society in general.
Cooper noted that, today, “masculinity is hated, shamed and vilified today to a degree never seen before in history, that is until a war, or natural disaster occurs, then all the women, children, and weak men run for safety, while virtuous men run into danger. ‘They’ say ‘toxic masculinity’ is the problem, the truth is, a lack of masculinity is the problem.” (MORE - details)
