Guys, ready to confess your sins?

silverdoctor · #1 03-30-2017, 10:19 AM

What in the world is going on with Canada? I'd like to have 10 minutes in there, safe spaces would be full

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University of Regina’s ‘Masculinity Confession Booth’ invites males to ‘come and share your sins’

An anti-violence campaign at the University of Regina has set up a “Masculinity Confession Booth” so passing students can absolve their personal guilt for promoting “hypermasculinity,” an exaggerated view of maleness in which emotion is suppressed until it explodes as anger.

“Come and share your sins so we can begin to discuss how to identify and change our ways,” reads the announcement from Man Up Against Violence, a campaign that aims to promote healthy masculinity, largely by talking about the toxic kind.

Both male and female students may confess their part in the social construction of negative male gender norms, but men are especially encouraged, said Roz Kelsey, a professor of kinesiology and health studies who founded the group as a student-run project in 2014, and now chairs it. Even just talking about what society expects from men can seem “emasculating,” she said.

“Men talking about this will have a whole lot more validity, perceived validity anyway, about the message itself,” she said.

Feel free to read the rest...

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...hare-your-sins

Albertadiver · #2 03-30-2017, 10:22 AM

Barf

Blastoff · #3 03-30-2017, 10:23 AM

Well if any of you are going pick me up on Highway 16 I am in, maybe go for lunch after at Hooters in Saskatoon if they have one, ha ha

rugatika · #4 03-30-2017, 10:34 AM

God I love this crap. Thanks to the entertainment value of these fellas I've been able to cancel my cable and netflix.

Never did understand why people have always made fun of the U of R...or Regina for that matter.

I would encourage all pranksters to record their "confessions" and post to youtube.

covey ridge · #5 03-30-2017, 10:35 AM

Too bad they are not offering a secure online way of doing this because I too do not feel like I am emoting enough.

silverdoctor · #6 03-30-2017, 10:39 AM

They'll be renaming the university soon, replace the Re with Va.

220swifty · #7 03-31-2017, 07:45 AM

Masculinity manifests itself as anger? After 9 years of marriage I'm just now being told my wife is masculine!?

elkhunter11 · #8 03-31-2017, 08:01 AM

i didn't vote for Notley or Trudeau, so I have nothing to confess for. Both have caused many people deep emotional disturbance, which may erupt into anger, and it has nothing to do with people's view of maleness.

Weedy1 · #9 03-31-2017, 08:10 AM

After reading this nonsense I think I need to go emasculate.

fishpro · #10 03-31-2017, 08:26 AM

Those of you who are talking negatively of this, please remember your words the next time you hear of a guy you know committing suicide where nobody saw it coming.

Lefty-Canuck · #11 03-31-2017, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by fishpro

Those of you who are talking negatively of this, please remember your words the next time you hear of a guy you know committing suicide where nobody saw it coming.

And if you think a random booth is going to solve mental illness and stress....***facepalm***

LC

covey ridge · #12 03-31-2017, 08:42 AM

If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

Albertadiver · #13 03-31-2017, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by fishpro

Those of you who are talking negatively of this, please remember your words the next time you hear of a guy you know committing suicide where nobody saw it coming.

These help quite a bit too.

Newview01 · #14 03-31-2017, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by fishpro

Those of you who are talking negatively of this, please remember your words the next time you hear of a guy you know committing suicide where nobody saw it coming.

What does that have to do with the non-existent issue of hyper-masculinity?

CaberTosser · #15 03-31-2017, 08:48 AM

Where's the booth for women to confess their sins? And I'm offended that the booths aren't welcoming to the entire gender alphabet.

Seems to me that this exercise is prejudicial.

Weedy1 · #16 03-31-2017, 09:04 AM

This is nothing more than an excellent attempt by the anti-violence campaign to gain press coverage. It will explode on the internet. I applaud them for their creativity.

covey ridge · #17 03-31-2017, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by CaberTosser

Where's the booth for women to confess their sins? And I'm offended that the booths aren't welcoming to the entire gender alphabet.

Seems to me that this exercise is prejudicial.

I thought the original article said that women could confess as well. I wonder how many are allowed in a booth at one time

I have heard that confession is good for the soul, but I also know that confession may put one in jail.

Big Sky · #18 03-31-2017, 09:20 AM

Catholics should be offended for the use of a confessional in a publicity stunt.

Lefty-Canuck · #19 03-31-2017, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Big Sky

Catholics should be offended for the use of a confessional in a publicity stunt.

Agree and so should everyone else for being forced to use a symbol of Catholicism.

LC

Buckhead · #20 03-31-2017, 09:36 AM

Good grief. More man-shaming.

Now we are supposed to apologize because our bodies contain testosterone.

Not likely.

CaberTosser · #21 03-31-2017, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by covey ridge

I thought the original article said that women could confess as well. I wonder how many are allowed in a booth at one time

I have heard that confession is good for the soul, but I also know that confession may put one in jail.

Note that the wording specified that it was for women to confess how they help shape men into the horrible beasts that we obviously all are...... It wasn't for them to confess their own shortcomings.

covey ridge · #22 03-31-2017, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck

Agree and so should everyone else for being forced to use a symbol of Catholicism.

LC

I don't think anyone is being forced to do anything. That said I think it is a dumb idea and adding the Catholicism thing has made it worse. I do not want to be part of a men are to blame for everything agenda. I also do not want to associate with symbolism of a religion that has covered for men that have abused the children of their faith that were trusted to them.

Weedy1 · #23 03-31-2017, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by covey ridge

I don't think anyone is being forced to do anything. That said I think it is a dumb idea and adding the Catholicism thing has made it worse. I do not want to be part of a men are to blame for everything agenda. I also do not want to associate with symbolism of a religion that has covered for men that have abused the children of their faith that were trusted to them.

It's rather ironic you used an angry emoticon on your reply.

Now I will use my scared emoticon to show I have feelings other than anger.

rugatika · #24 03-31-2017, 10:25 AM

Women need to worry about their own issues before they think they have any ground to stand on telling men to feel guilty for being men.

Redfrog · #25 03-31-2017, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by covey ridge

I don't think anyone is being forced to do anything. That said I think it is a dumb idea and adding the Catholicism thing has made it worse. I do not want to be part of a men are to blame for everything agenda. I also do not want to associate with symbolism of a religion that has covered for men that have abused the children of their faith that were trusted to them.

You do know that it will soon be illegal to criticize Islam, right?

the women have no time for this nonsense. they are busy building sammiches.

Fisherpeak · #26 03-31-2017, 10:36 AM

Red Green Man Statement.
I am a man
But I can change
If I have to
I guess.

rugatika · #27 03-31-2017, 10:57 AM

One man. One feminist. Alone in a confessional booth. Sounds like a setup for sexual harassment charges.

Weedy1 · #28 03-31-2017, 12:02 PM

Three feminists walk into a bar.

They look at one another and say, "Hooray! We've taken over a male-dominated joke format!"

covey ridge · #29 03-31-2017, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Weedy1

It's rather ironic you used an angry emoticon on your reply.

Now I will use my scared emoticon to show I have feelings other than anger.

Scared! Fear?
Fear is often what influences violence or anger.

angry emoticon? Just because I am probably one of those guys with unresolved issues that............aw what the heck, that emoticon is what I feel about the Catholic Church. They have more issues than most men.

covey ridge · #30 03-31-2017, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Redfrog

You do know that it will soon be illegal to criticize Islam, right?

Then I better get in my shot asap.

Well at least Islam does not come up with the idea that it's the man's fault. On the contrary many insist that the man does no wrong but it is the woman who stirs up the men to do evil.

In Islam it may be best not to confess or one may have something cut off.

Making sammies is honest work.