If there was a Men's Studies section, what questions would you ask?

Question

The Masculine studies is a regular discipline in some universities, but many people here are asking why there is no Men's Studies section in Y! Answers, having no idea what it would be. Let's try to think about that.

Answer 1

well i would ask how do i get a date with Aurora

Answer 2

There is no men's studies, because the very study of history (his-story) is written, told, editted, and revised almost exclusively by men. Also, as minorities, women, and the disabled are finding their voice, it must be said that the male, particularly the white male, has become something to shun. Not true you say? Just try to start an association for the advancement of caucasian people, a caucasian college fund, or a caucasian studies group, and see how many minutes it takes for the rabble to show up on your doorstep screaming racist.

Answer 3

Where is the Women's Studies?
How come there is no Women studies?

Well, actually there is. It's over ther........

Ok, Thanks,
Going to the women studies. See ya!

There is an old saying. If ya want the men to come bring the Women

That may be the reason there is only the Women Studies.

Personally it does not bother me.

We kinda get both in the Women 's Studies anyway.
If you want to know about the men, men, ask the women they will at least give you their version fore-sure.

You may not like it (as I have experienced) but you'll get it anyway. LOL!!!!

Answer 4

I'd love to ask questions about how men think, how their minds work - and no, they don't belong in singles and dating!

Also ask guys their opinions on things in regard to gender relations and so on.

Also to ask women what they think about men or certain male activities and habits (hopefully not just a bitchfest).

How men are portrayed in the media - advertisements, news reports and so on.

Changing male roles in our society; are things different from younger men/boys than 50 years ago and how society has shaped those changes.

I think there would be plenty to say!

Answer 5

Men's studies - also sometimes called masculinity studies - is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning men, gender, and politics. As a relatively new field of study, men's studies was formed largely in response to, and as a critique of, an emerging men's rights movement - itself a response to both the real and perceived advantages brought to women by feminism political action - and has only been taught in academic settings since the 1970s. In many universities, men's studies is a correlate to or part of a larger women's studies or gender studies program, and as such its faculty tends to be sympathetic to or engaged in feminist politics.

Men's studies programs and courses often include contemporary discussions of men's rights, feminist theory, queer theory, patriarchy, and, more generally, the social, historical, and cultural constructions of men and masculinity. They often discuss the issues surrounding the changing forms of male privilege, as well as the anxiety that men in developed countries face as a result of their loss of privilege and clear gender roles in light of the feminist movement. Importantly, scholars engaged in the field of Men's Studies tend not to agree that this anxiety is justified, and analyze the socio-historical institutions and attitudes that have led men to assume that their power and authority should be necessarily greater than, or at least necessarily different from, that of women.

The American Men Studies Association traces the roots of an organized field of men's studies to the early 1980s and the work of scholars involved in an anti-sexist organization called the Men's Studies Task Group (MSTG) of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) [1], which included Martin Acker, Shepherd Bliss, Harry Brod, Sam Femiano, Martin Fiebert, and Michael Messner. However, men's studies classes also pre-date AMSA, and a small number were taught in various colleges across the United States throughout the 1970s.

Due to its relative newness and the debate over the purpose or mission of men's studies, the boundaries and subjects of men's studies are always under debate and constantly changing. This is also due to the fact that many male and female scholars of men's studies have varied and often disagreeing politics, including feminism, pro-feminism, the men's movement, men's rights advocacy, the mythopoetic men's movement, and masculism. Ironically, a minority of men's studies scholars also figure the loss of male privilege as a form of male oppression, pointing to women's superiority in reproductive freedom and choice, as well as archaic attitudes towards child custody and domestic violence laws that criminalize men without a jury trial. Despite this, the majority still identify as feminist or profeminist, and hold that whatever gains have been made by women are still dwarfed by the inequalities they face in the home, under law, and on the job market. As well, some feminists contend that men's studies is unnecessary, as related disciplines such as sociology, history, psychology, political science, and literature are already dominated by the theories and texts of men.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_studies

So, folks, these are not a kind of chauvinist's studies as some would expect, but studies dealing with the real problems and phenomena of masculinity and are in close agreement with most academic feminist and gender disciplines.

Answer 6

How to be more flexible to women's concerns with out turning into a wimp. Men have been led in the past decades to what women want..more sesitive, take better care of himself, better in relationships etc. and now we are ... I'm hearing how women want more masculine men

Also what cost is there to the male role. men should start something similar to what feminists did. Its a lie that all women are abused and all men are perpetrators.

Answer 7

There are many, perhaps over lapping, answers to this SERIOUS question. Please bear with me and challenge or accept each on its merits.

Wife beating
Anger management
Ego management
Greed
Responsibility
The ability to romance and not take one's partner for granted.
Control abuse.
Accept failure.
Don't fall into women's traps
Deconstruct man's need to go to war.
What are men's needs (real or socially induced maybe)
Mateship
Loyalty
Share insights into that elusive other sex.

I know people don't read long answers so enough already . . .

Answer 8

I would ask the same question about men that I do about women: why are they so insecure and feel like they have to fake being something they are not to attract attention? Pretty sad in all cases..

Answer 9

I'd ask why don't guys hook up with women like u! No, but really I think that studies on men is sexist! Man power! Women don't have any weak spots on the outside!

Answer 10

Their role in society, their needs, what they feel about this culture, society... men in religion, violence, racism, their duties with their families, childcare, abortion, all that...... al from a male point of view... some would be interesting, as long as they could be serious about it, cause some are such monkeys that don't seem to understand what serious is.

Answer 11

Good idea. Most of us women could learn a thing or two.