UBC Needs a Male Studies Course

This is important for women, too!

UBC´s anti-male bias/focus is ridiculous. Every single institutional message is about promoting women and ignoring men.

Anyone majoring in gender studies should be exposed to male issues as well as those for other genders.

Because men need help.

I strongly support the idea of offering male studies courses based on sound scholarship and positive values for men and boys.

Great idea.

This is long over due.

quid pro quo - but they'd probably put in a FEMALE prof to teach it!

Now that would be progressive.

In order to regain the sense of balance and true gender equality, this makes perfect sense in that the omission of the male gender from discussion and investigation, smacks of superiority in reality.

Any right thinking person who values equality will see the necessity of this.

Because boys matter too!

Too much modern media is focusing on deconstructing the work of great men in order to target their flaws as seen by their enemies, ex lovers, and sometimes outright speculative fabrications. This media including films and documentaries is being presented as fact in order to discredit these iconic figures and make room for feminist literature to replace it.

Yes...it is time there is some focus on Men's unique problems. We have very little in the way of real rights...but we are still focused only on Women's Issues!

Bravo

GIVE US STUDIE COURSES

Before you claim men don't face issues, consider the fact that men's lives and health are not valued as highly as men, men are expected to sacrifice health and life for women, men in many ways are still subservient to women based on outdated traditional gender roles that hurt men and give women social privilege. These are important issues that should be examined outside of patriarchy theory that claims all tradional roles are intended primarily to oppress women and give men privilege. A new perspective is needed and studying men's issues could help with that. Why Cancer that primarily affects men gets less funding than that for women, why boys are doing worse in school, why men die 7 years earlier, why men are driving to do more dangerous jobs or to sacrifice their lives for women, why the media is so anti-male, why society cares more about violence against female victims than male victims, why boys face more parental violence from mother's thank girls do...the list goes on and on.

This is long long overdue. Female chauvinism and misandry are rampant in academy.

This is a very important and timely initiative. I hope the effort results in bringing greater equality and inclusiveness to this dialogue at ubc.

Offering a course on male studies is an important step towards gender equality, and towards recognizing mens unique contributions, but also challenges, discriminations and biases that they face on a daily basis. I strongly support this! Burton Lee, Stanford University