UCalgary to launch North America's first masculine studies program
Maybe, if Michael Kehler has his way, there will be a new generation of detoxified masculinity. Kehler hopes to use his platform as the newly appointed research chair of North America's first masculine studies program at the University of Calgary, to start a conversation about how to be boy and a man in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp.
From the sounds of it, that means out with mansplaining and in with careful listening.
Out with bullying, macho posturing and being emotionally inarticulate; in with building community, personal connection and finding creative compromises to personal obstacles.
Kehler spoke to Doug Dirks on CBC Calgary's The Homestretch, about the launch of the program, a four-part speaker series open to the public, Rethinking What It Means to be a Boy, a Man. It features academics from England, Australia, the United States and Iceland.