You’re basically a’ bad’ person if you think it’s your duty to protect people
For his debate on” dangerous masculinity,” an English teacher at Canada’s Cambrian College has amassed rather the social media following.
Neil Shyminsky has about one million total fans, primarily for his “prescriptive” rather than “descriptive” video on the subject on Instagram, Facebook, and most specifically TikTok, according to Bay Today.
” I try to regularly show and promote in my videos, if I’m going to use data that says something is unequal, it’s derogatory, or what have you, then I’m going to put things in here to state but it can and should be various”, Shyminsky said.
Shyminsky ( pictured ), who was “obsessed in his youth” with the popular Marvel Comics character Wolverine, (” There’s no greater empowerment fantasy than the little guy with claws who can’t be killed” ) noted it “wasn’t until]he ] reached university and took classes on feminism and gender studies” that he realized the Canadian superhero just “might be feeding ]him ] something a little toxic”.
Dangerous manhood is defined in the post as “qualities such as murder, dominance, psychological poverty, physical privilege, and hostility to femininity”.
In one of Shyminsky’s TikTok video, he claims that if you’re a man who thinks it’s your duty to protect people, you don’t really work toward a world in which such individuals don’t exist.
In other words, for a boy’s” self actualization is opposed to women’s liberation” — that “being a nice guy also requires you to be a poor one”.
Additionally, Shyminsky asserts that men who think it is their duty to protect women are in actual danger:” You are one of the bad guys for some other woman’s fine man.”
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The doctor claims that research has shown that those who adhere to traditional gender roles and attitudes also hold the most “hostile discriminatory attitudes.”
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Given this … logic, it’s no surprise Shyminsky overlooks how Wolverine’s” toxic masculinity” literally saved the lives of his fellow X-Men countless times, perhaps most notably from the likes of the Hellfire Club ( pictured ) and the alien Brood.
Not to mention, the Canuck’s” toxicity” ( he often uses terms like “frail” for women ) just might have something to do with how he was relentlessly ridiculed for being an “animal” and ( as Shyminsky noted ) a “midget” his whole life. ( Yes, Wolverine is quite tiny in the comics, so choosing Hugh Jackman to portray him in the movies is probably the biggest departure from the character’s lore. )
However, Wolverine has frequently been depicted as quite tender and considerate toward women, especially those for whom he cares ( like Mariko Yashida ).
Shyminsky also believes X-Men has been an outlet by which” white creators and audiences have ]… ] had a space in which to enact racial fantasies of oppression”, and that there’s a” considerable difference” between “ideal” and “actual” readers of the title.
After all, he claims that” [w]h the company and creators ‘ refusal to suggest that some identifications are closer to the mark than others implies an equivalence between all of the various readers ‘ oppressions” while the X-Men metaphor appears socially progressive in its inclusivity.
Shyminsky lately received a” Major 5 Candidate” award from the Cheer Choice Awards, which honor “positive authors on social media who are making an impact using their programs.”
According to his Linkedin site, Prof. Shyminsky was a PhD student in” Social and Political Thought” and is” now working on an analysis of the X-Men’s often dangerous political messaging”.
( h/t:  , Bleeding Fool )
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