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My workplace is sponsoring a talk titled: "Inclusive Leadership: Diagnosing and Dismantling Masculinity Contest Culture".

dacracot

November 12, 2018

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Title	My workplace is sponsoring a talk titled: "Inclusive Leadership: Diagnosing and Dismantling Masculinity Contest Culture".
Author	dacracot
Upvotes	11
Comments	4
Date	November 12, 2018 6:45 PM UTC (7 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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[–]dacracot[S] 1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

[–]dacracot[S] 2 points3 points4 points 7 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Full admission of bias...

Although we conceived the masculinity contest as a competitive struggle for dominance, Kiselica and Englar-Carlson (2010) have argued that masculin- ity norms also include prosocial behaviors. Supporting their views with clinical case studies, these authors suggest that masculinity promotes positive values such as achieving friendship through teamwork, resilience, and heroism (e.g., risking oneself to protect others). Empirical research also suggests some positive male stereotypes and norms. Although stereotypically associated with dislikable dom- inant traits, men are also assigned positive agentic traits, such as dependability, leadership ability, decisiveness, rationality, and willingness to take risks (Prentice & Carranza, 2002). These stereotypes generalize widely: across 16 nations. Glick et al. (2004) found that stereotypes characterize men as “bad, but bold” (e.g., domineering, but also daring).

Given their theorized roots in a dominance competition, we expected masculinity contest norms to emphasize self-interested and toxic, rather than prosocial and cooperative, aspects of masculinity. Nevertheless, we included both negative and positive masculine norms (e.g., heroism, team bonding) in item development. Positive norms, however, consistently failed to load on coherent factors, affirming our original conception that masculinity contest norms reflect a hypercompetitive, ruthless, no-holds-barred dominance competition. Four themes emerged empiri- cally, constituting the MCC’s subscales: show no weakness, put work first, strength and stamina, and dog eat dog.

[–]YoubigdumbSOB 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

Notice how they call competition as negative and cooperation as positive, YET, it's been proven countless times that women are much more interested in men who rise above others through competition.

It's a classic example of feminist hypocrisy, where the toxic ideas of how men SHOULD be, don't hold up to what men and women really want from men.

It's just like how Jennifer Siebel Newsom's documentary says that masculinity is problematic, and they had a panel on it hosted by Maria Shriver.

They presented male competition as a bad thing that should be eliminated, yet look at the men those women chose. Did they choose nice, cooperative, beta males? No, both chose powerful politicians as spouses. Shriver also had an affair (while married to Arnie) with another powerful political player, who was one of Arnie's team no less.

P.S., teams have their place. Working together toward a mutual goal is a great place for teaming up.

Male competition ALSO has its place for INDIVIDUAL goals, such as mate selection. Males (not just humans, not by far -- this is why Peterson uses lobsters as an example) compete for the "best" female they can get, and females also rely on male competition to determine which male has the highest value.

To be against competition is utter nonsense and a REALLY bad idea.

[–]v573v 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link