American Psychological Association: 1st-ever guidelines for practice with men & boys

[Just Passin' By]

...APA’s new Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Boys and Men strive to recognize and address these problems in boys and men while remaining sensitive to the field’s androcentric past. Thirteen years in the making, they draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly....

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/01/...source=twitter

[Katipan]

I like deliberate suppression. Not confused suppression.

Some of you have no idea why you act the way you do.
Some of you don't care.

I know which one gets more pussy.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

Good news guys, masculinity also magnifies racism!

Yes, but they want to encourage the pro-social aspects of masculinity.

What are those? Stoicism and self sacrifice.

Sounds like an obedient slave to me, but whatevs.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

Yes, but they want to encourage the pro-social aspects of masculinity.

What are those? Stoicism and self sacrifice.

Sounds like an obedient slave to me, but whatevs.

Sounds a lot like a stay at home mom.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by Katipan

Sounds a lot like a stay at home mom.

If you consider raising children a sacrifice, you probably shouldn't be a mother.

If you're raising children and your family as an act of obedience, you're acting against yourself and everyone else you share your life with.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

If you consider raising children a sacrifice, you probably shouldn't be a mother.

If you consider being stoic to be a sign of a slave then you can turn in your testicals yesterday.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by Katipan

If you consider being stoic to be a sign of a slave then you can turn in your testicals yesterday.

I'm going to just sit here and bask in the irony of this article making these two statements.

1. Men not talking and complaining about their feelings is bad.

2. Men being stoic is good.

Let the incoherence of that dance around a bit.

Stoicism without the will to act is simply obedience. No trait, in a vacuum, is a virtue. It's the dynamics of those traits interacting that makes someone virtuous or a compliant little pet rabbit.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

If you consider raising children a sacrifice, you probably shouldn't be a mother.

If you're raising children and your family as an act of obedience, you're acting against yourself and everyone else you share your life with.

She can and will exhibit enormous self sacrifice.
And won't need anyone forcing her to do it.

So too will normal functioning men.
And thats why blow jobs.

[GloryDayz]

So, do I continue to open the door for the wife, or is that now taboo?

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

So, do I continue to open the door for the wife, or is that now taboo?

Only if you call her Massa while she strolls by.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by Katipan

Only if you call her Massa while she strolls by.

You made that comparison, not me.

This article is about men, not you. Demonizing all of masculinity except those two traits says something. It's not creating the type of men you give blowjobs to.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

You made that comparison, not me.

This article is about men, not you.

I know which category you're in.
You brought up the slave word.
You.
Manly man.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by Katipan

I know which category you're in.

What you know couldn't fill a thimble.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

What you know couldn't fill a thimble.

Aww pumpkin. It'll be ok.
Character building is good.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by Katipan

I know which category you're in.
You brought up the slave word.
You.
Manly man.

In the context of encouraging obedience and cowardice, yes.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Katipan

I like deliberate suppression. Not confused suppression.

Some of you have no idea why you act the way you do.
Some of you don't care.

I know which one gets more pussy.

I'm guessing it has to do with pussy, but it's just a guess.