{"id":50801,"date":"2019-10-09T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=50801"},"modified":"2021-02-12T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:06:30","slug":"masculinity-on-the-agenda-at-mens-talk-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2019\/10\/09\/masculinity-on-the-agenda-at-mens-talk-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Masculinity on the agenda at Men’s Talk event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sight of the Event:<\/strong> A Men’s Talk Conversation was a held at the Wild Rose Brewery in Calgary on Sept. 12, 2019. From left, Abbas Mancey, Maimuna Khan and Will Tabak were the facilitators. (Photo by Johannes Juanerio\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A<\/span> group of Calgary males shared a sensitive and emotional night Sept. 12, talking about masculinity in today\u2019s society.<\/p>\n

A<\/span> Men\u2019s Talk Conversation was held by members of the Alberta Men\u2019s Network, at the Wild Rose Brewery.<\/p>\n

The Alberta Men\u2019s Network<\/a> was formed collaboratively with the community-based Alberta Men\u2019s Survey (AMS).<\/p>\n

The AMS was created with more than 70 men and women and over 18 organizations, for the purpose of enhancing men\u2019s roles in violence prevention.<\/p>\n

Facilitators, Will Tabak, Maimuna Khan, and Abbas Mancey hosted the Men\u2019s Talk Conversation.<\/p>\n

Masculinity does not have a specific definition said Mancey. \u201c\u2026It is something that is not static over time when you grow older.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tabak, Khan and Mancey\u2019s goals are to work with men in six key areas: Self-development, support, role modelling, education, outreach, and promotion.<\/p>\n

As the night went along, there was an activity called Gender Box, in which people list stereotypes of men and women.<\/p>\n

Rob Marshall, 37, who is a social worker, said \u201cI think the stereotypes of men in today\u2019s society are that they ignore feelings, provide for the family, and have a tough, physical aura.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a high self-esteem, physical traits, and being a womanizer are stereotypes for men.\u201d said Michael Eagle Speaker.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s society, being a white man is seen as the norm in areas like a workplace, the participants found. When a white man steps in or shows up, they are seen as having authority in that setting.<\/p>\n

The list eventually went on to stereotypes of women in today\u2019s society and Khan, one of the facilitators said, \u201cStereotypes of a woman include physical features, being emotional, being submissive and a pleaser and most importantly, not being as capable as men.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ari Chan, 32, a local musician, said men have have influenced the culture of today\u2019s society as well as the way women are perceived.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a two-way street too, because without women, men would not be how they are shaped today,\u201d Chan said.<\/p>\n

Masculinity should be as linear as femininity. – Regie Perona<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lack of brawn and toughness is deemed to be weakness, and delicacy is effeminate which is the perverted truth trumpeted to feed the ego of the one who believes in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe term masculinity should not be misconstrued as the one who has muscles the most, as anatomically men and women have the muscles essentially to live. Masculinity should be as linear as femininity,\u201d said Regie Perona, 53, who works at the South Health Campus as a lab assistant.<\/p>\n

The event was closed with Tabak making a bold statement saying, \u201cRegardless of race and culture, the word masculinity can be very subjective as it can vary across cultural and historical eras.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, September 12, at the Wild Rose Brewery, a Men\u2019s Talk Conversation was held by members of the Alberta Men\u2019s Network [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":50976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S1 Men's Talk JJ","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50801"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51359,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50801\/revisions\/51359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}