'Traditional masculinity' labeled 'harmful' by the American Psychological Assc

Re:'Traditional masculinity' labeled 'harmful' by the Americ... by turingspiritfly on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:35PM (#18875893)

> “traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful.

This really sounds like an attack on masculinity. One must never forget, the age of information with all it's flaws and good was brought upon the back of a structure who's main building block atleast in terms of values were masculine values which I think is independent of gender/sex

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Re:'Traditional masculinity' labeled 'harmful' by the Americ... by Aldo_MX on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:20PM (#18876399)

Out of curiosity, if someone agrees with the statement that competitiveness is "toxic", I want to know what search engine does that person use because I'm honestly expecting that person to use a terrible engine like Ask Jeeves.

Without competitiveness we wouldn't have Google or Duck Duck Go.

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Re:'Traditional masculinity' labeled 'harmful' by the Americ... by Balgair on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:11PM (#18876960)

That quote in the LA Time article in not in the APA Guidelines document. I've no idea where the author got that quote from. But then again, I've not parsed the APA document super carefully.

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Re:'Traditional masculinity' labeled 'harmful' by the Americ... by fucking_tragedy on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:05PM (#18876249)

> This really sounds like an attack on masculinity

Does it? Or are you looking for a reason to be offended?

From the article:

> The APA also encouraged men to embrace the positive aspects of traditional masculinity, like leadership and courage.

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