Entries Tagged as 'Masculinity'
October 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Patrick Welsh, who teaches in the Washington D.C, school system, has diagnosed the problem of poor academic achievement among black students: Making the Grade Isn’t about Race. It’s About Parents.
“Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?”
In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class [...]
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Tags: Masculinity · Responsibility · Women in Church · education
Boys have a hard time in school. Teachers like the way girls sit still in school and don’t fool around. Boys are much too fidgety. My son Charles tried out school for one day; he complained for a week that his legs hurt him from sitting all day in class. When the principal asked [...]
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Tags: Masculinity · education · schools
February 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
As I noted in my book The Church Impotent, the Christian churches and the schools are both female oriented, and boys, especially blue-collar boys, do not like to go to them.
In Quebec, the Montréal Gazette reports
It is mainly boys who drop out and in Quebec, they are mostly French-speaking. Before coming to power [...]
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Tags: Canada · Masculinity · Uncategorized
The NYT article on the Calvinist and ultra-masculine Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill Church in Seattle is not too bad. Driscoll, by rejecting the prissiness of much of evangelical America, has some success in reaching rough young men with the gospel.
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The theological analysis in the article uses stereotypes. Calvinists believe in total depravity – but [...]
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Tags: Masculinity · Women in Church
 One would think this sign is superfluous:Â
 No esta permitido nadar - is not allowed swimming
But this guy tried to climb on the iceberg:
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Tags: Argentina · Masculinity
January 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I think this is for real, unless Sascha Baron Cohen has a new persona.  TAZ interviewed two Kok-Boru players in Kyrgyzstan. The sport was, for reasons that will become clear, outlawed when the country was part of the Soviet Union. My translation:  Â
TAZ: Herr Taigashkaeb, what goes on in Kok-Boru?
Ruslan Taigashkaeb: Two teams with four players [...]
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Tags: Masculinity