Why are so few people interested in Men's studies, like they are in Women's studies?

Well I'm actually interested because I am aware of the major backlash against men in general...but to be honest.......It's not a matter about me not caring about the issues...I just have a problem with the lack of choices I'm faced with if I want to be affliated with a label that shoots for Men's Studies as well.

Now, people say that Men's studies is given all throughout history, but then that would mean that women's studies is all acknowledging women in history. That's not what it is about, at least not from the class I took. From what I understand, women's studies focuses on the discriminations against women in our currect society. There's a difference between learning about men in history and learning about discrimination against men in current society...A major difference....they can't even be compared to one another.

I just find that the answer "Because every other course of study is about men" is ignorant. We're evolving right along with women as well, even if no one wants to notice it or not.

Since most of the stuff we learn about is from a male perspective, and white male at that, it can be considered men's studies. We already have a male's point of view about thing so now it's time to hear what other people-females and minority males-have to say.

ive asked this question, and the answers ive gotten usually come out as so: Men take classes that they know will benefit them for there job, while women take classes that interest them or fulfill them (one of the reasons many men are higher paid, yet miserable, at their jobs). Men cant find a useful application of a Mens Studies course, so the idea was not generated too far.

Of course we care about problems facing us, but a Mens Studies course wouldnt do anything about it. Positions in the government, in the medical field, scientific field, and other powerful fields would help fix the problems.

I can only speak about this as a white guy, and we all know that white guys are responsible for everything that is wrong in the world, and throughout history.

Even suggesting a "Men's Studies" course would have gotten a professor fired, and his loss of tenure !

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What's MRA's ?

I know my Doctors keep a close watch on my blood work, to see about some factor the prostate effects, but can't remember it's name.?

Perhaps, you have spoken too fast.

AMSA's 16th Annual Conference

Masculinities and Institutions:

Mapping the Connections

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

April 4th-6th, 2008

The conference will feature two keynote addresses, pre-conference men’s studies workshops, and presentations by over 50 scholars, practitioners and activists.**The second source is more towards the bottom of the page. **The Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM)**Now I believe that we have all heard of at least a few.

Men are kind of the default sex. In most classes, men's issues are studied without even realizing it. Women's studies simply make up for the fact that they are over looked in most subjects. I've had this converstion with male professors in university and this is how they felt too.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease and women's studies makes a lot of noise. Men studies in this environment is perceived as a joke or a pretence with challenging women's rights as its real agenda.

Modern women's studies needs to add a special module: 'reconciliation with men after the rise of women'.

I think its because all we learn about from kindergarten up is men. The first woman in ancient history I ever hear about was Bernice who rebeled against her father Ptolemy and was killed by the Romans. She was also the last woman I heard about in ancient history. Maybe women's studies is to correct this? I'd rather women were included in our general history, you know treated as equals to men.

Perhaps men have been effectively scared off about being men in the first place. If you research men, you might be labeled a misogynist; if you study European Americans, you might be labeled a racist; etc. Plenty of men (and women) care about men, but there's a stigma attached to researching such things.

Here's the thing. Women's studies and gender studies are one. If I applied to a course titled Gender Studies, I can guarantee you that 85+% of the material would be based on women's studies, and books written on women.

I don't know if it's true, but I'm getting the feeling that there are a select few people in power who don't want men to have THEIR movement for rights. Women's rights have advanced, and men's are still in the dark ages. I'm not talking about laws, or actual governmental rights, but social rights. It could be some men up top who are holding onto the old values, or it could be some misaligned feminists who want to hold men back. I might be wrong, but the truth is that as it is, men aren't looking like they'll advance for a long time.

I mean, my cousin is married and his wife recently had a baby. They were going over names over Christmas(which was celebrated at my house as normal) , and the argument was that Taylor was too girly of a name for the soon to be baby boy.

Taylor, historically, was very likely a boy's name. Only in recent years have some girls adapted it, as well as other boy's names. Women are wearing clothes designed for men now and no one scoffs, but if a guy wears something remotely feminine, his sexuality is called into question for some reason. It's a double standard that's growing as years pass, and men are falling by the wayside.

It's not like everything has to be gender neutral. I'm just saying that there need to be changes made.

For instance, I read a study that stated women were the cause of more non-reciprocal violence in relationships...yet if you're a guy and you go to the cops about your wife or girlfriend abusing you...your manhood is called into question. They'll probably still do their duty because how quick people are to sue somebody if they're wronged, but still, in many courtrooms, people stereotypically take the woman's side in domestic assault charges almost by default, as does the jury.

Where are the places men can go when they're raped? Doors close in those facilities generally geared towards women.

Where can men go when they're abused? What resources do men have in divorce court? What about men applying for jobs who are turned down because the company doesn't have enough women employed to warrant another guy(even if there aren't any women applying for the job)?

What about school curriculums? What methods are being put in place t ensure that boys are being taught as efficiently as girls are being taught? That activities and courses include both male and female oriented tasks that aren't biased?

Men are taught to be silent about their troubles. That speaking your weaknesses is the ultimate weakness. Where women are socially allowed to complain, men aren't. Men can be blamed, women can't.

Somehow(sadly), the feminist movement brought upon a state of affairs that offers a single gender's views of morals and law, and reality.

In my social sciences class, I was told by the teacher to be quiet in a class discussion because I was male and therefore had no right to speak on the topic of equal rights. I almost vomited. I filed a complaint to the principal and nothing was ever done. I dropped out of the course because I was getting failed for not allowing myself to be some male toilet for all of her excreted hatred.

So yeah. Men are taught not to worry about their rights, and not to complain. There a lot of good feminists out there who care about equal rights(read: not true equality, which is not attainable), but there are a few out there taking advantage of the good ones and manipulating them in sick ways to change our society to their will. And they will that no men's rights course will pop up. They will that men don't ask why they're being oppressed more than ever nowadays, and to shrug off that oppression as natural behaviour.