I was reading up on this issue, and found it disturbing. Political correctiveness gone astray, it seems. I honestly cannot see any objection as to why people would be against a place where Men can find refuge from issues such as divorce, depression, child custody, anger management, and peer support. You would think that by denying funding to resource centres to cater to Men, we are just making some social problems worse. Yet, here we are in 2017, and Feminist group on most Canadian University campuses are dead set against any kind of centres dedicated to resources for Men's issues.
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY :
"In April, the Simon Fraser University student society voted to devote $30,000 of its budget toward the development of a men’s resource centre. The battle began soon after.
Resident feminists scoffed. Men? Needing a place to discuss their “issues?” Ridiculous. Men were the issue. Meanwhile, the SFU Women’s Centre had been fighting the good fight since 1974, and offering its small campus office as a haven.
As for a men’s centre? Declared the Women’s Centre’s website — which, curiously, offers a “Male Allies” link, as if to enlist them — well, “the men’s centre is everywhere else.”
In other words, it’s still a man’s world, even if female university students significantly outnumber male students across the country, including at SFU.
The Women’s Centre would, however, support a men’s centre on one condition, and I paraphrase: if the men used the centre to admit to their gender crimes.
“Our support,” it stated on the website, “would be contingent on that centre’s mission statement, vision, and mandate. If the centre were about challenging popular conceptions about masculinity, confronting homophobia, sexism, racism, classism, and ability issues then we would definitely be the first to promote and fundraise for such a group.”
http://www.vancouversun.com/McMartin...021/story.html
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RYERSON UNIVERSITY:
"That’s when the 24-year-old social work student stopped by Bain’s office to tell her she’d like to do her third-year placement with the Canadian Centre for Men and Families (CCMF), an offshoot of the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE).
The Centre, which opened in 2014, offers counseling and group support to men about such issues as fathering, trauma, family law and suicide prevention. CCMF executive director Justin Trottier says they have one of Toronto’s only groups for victims of domestic assault.
You would have thought she’d asked Bain to send her to Russia.
“Next thing I know she’s telling me it’s problematic because it exists ...that the place is an act of violence,” said Wallace last week.
Forced to defend her choice, Wallace said she broke down and revealed to Bain she’s a survivor of sexual assault and domestic violence.
She told Bain had her father been helped with his own issues that would have likely “saved” her.
“I was crying for 45 minutes straight,” she said. “If there were more support for guys and we really broke down that stigma, there’d be less hurt guys and there there’d be less hurt women.”
Instead of offering her the placement of her choice, Bain offered her a sexual assault colouring book."
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/06/10...s-at-ryerson-u
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I'm a firm believer of support groups for everyone. It just seems counter productive to the best interests of society to oppose these resource centres