Toxic masculinity? Dude Now Americas Universities Are Turning Men Into Women

By Todd Starnes Universities across the fruited plain are trying to convince men to grow lady parts. And thats a problem America. Campus Reform recently reported on efforts to provide safe spaces" to fight back against what the academic world calls toxic masculinity." Instead of a country full of manly men our universities want a nation full of Pajama Boys. Oregon State University is hosting a health masculinities conference." Students will engage in collective imagining to construct new futures for masculinities unrestricted by power privilege and oppression." Brown University has a program titled Masculinity 101" for students who identify as men" Campus Reform reports. Get a load of the course description titled Unlearning Toxic Masculinity:" Men will often resort to violence to resolve conflict because anger is the only emotion that they have been socialized to express. Unfortunately the way that young men are conditioned to view sex and their need to be dominant and have power over others also contribute to instances of sexual assault and other forms of interpersonal violence on college campuses." In the hit Broadway musical My Fair Lady" Professor Henry Higgins laments in a song Why cant a woman be more like a man?" Today Professor Higgins might be singing a different tune Why cant a man be more like a woman?" CARTOONS  LISA BENSON VIEW CARTOON  Could you imagine the Greatest Generation flitting about town after a spa and dishing about their inner-most thoughts with life coaches? In todays reengineered version of manhood guys no longer have friends they have bromances and they settle disputes by hugging it out. Mens magazines are now filled with articles like Should a Man Show Nipple?" and What Men Know about Wearing Eyeliner." A survey by AskMen.com found that 20 percent of men have no problem wearing makeup. In my book Dispatches From Bitter America" I pondered these developments. Can you imagine John Wayne using moisturizer and a concealer stick to hide razor nicks? Would todays version of The Godfather accessorize with Dolche Gabana while settling family" business with group hugs? A few years ago I conducted an unscientific poll to determine what the average American woman looks for in a man. The poll results were not all that surprising. Ladies want a man who loves God and loves his family. They also want a man who in no particular order:

1. Has a job;
2. Drives a pickup truck;
3. Uses the bathroom standing up;
4. Eats meat;
5. And is willing to carry them out of a burning building.

In other words -- they want the kind of man made in Gods image -- not the image of some effeminate intellectual stuffed in skinny jeans sipping chai tea with his pinky finger extended.