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> “traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful. This really sounds like an attack on ma
by turingspiritfly 8y ago
> “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
- fucking_tragedy 8y ago> 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.
- Aldo_MX 8y agoOut 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.
- Balgair 8y agoThat 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.