Does gender studies include men's rights/issues?

Silly goose. Men have no “rights.”..

@MrGrimm888 Good thing that I am left.

^And that’s ALLright…

@RedDeerGuy1 I don’t know if this is a joke question, but I really want to see a good discussion about toxic masculinity. Men look like they have a lot in favor of them but they also suffer from expectation to be manly. It leads to problems like depression and shame. I don’t know about gender studies, but it would be great to see something like that being studied.

Of course! Why wouldn’t it?

“Gender studies focuses on the ways gender identity and sexual orientation shape behaviors and feelings, and it investigates power dynamics that relate to sex. This field includes men’s studies, women’s studies and queer studies, and occasionally addresses widespread social concerns such as domestic violence. The academic discipline also investigates causes of sex-based discrimination and harassment and solutions to the problem.”

Um, well they honestly just get glossed over at best, marginalized at worst and most commonly, blatantly disregarded/ignored. To answer your question, No. Not really.

Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the complex interaction of gender with other identity markers such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, and religion. Gender— femininity and masculinity—is such a basic form of social organization that its operation often passes unnoticed.

https://gender.ucla.edu/about/

I guess it depends on what level of education is being discussed. High school? nah, not taught. College, most definitely.

^I don’t believe any of us don’t understand what the curriculum of “gender studies” should likely be.
However. To opine that men’s rights are equally considered, or represented, is a fairly ridiculous notion. Admittedly. The last time I took college courses was 1999. And that was BEFORE everything bad that ever happened, was because of a man…

I find it relevant that as an atheist, I have ZERO representation in any level of society.

It’s not that anything should be “done” about it, but most people agree that the most dangerous thing in the world is a 25–40 year old single male, with no future… That’s why we get things like ISIS, Boko Haram, or other swarms of rudderless, frustrated, young men.

In America, there is a huge problem with young boys. They have few positive male role models. Amongst other things, men are just supposed to power through whatever problems. There is a large opportunity for affecting the world through growing better people. But. We only try to help symptoms. Never the root problems.

People are NOT too smart.
Think of helping elephants, or whales. Great cause, right? Of course it is. But. If we helped the poor, suffering people surrounding our precious endangered species, they would take care of their own wildlife…
Nobody cared about animals in North America, until the population was wealthy enough to have the convenience of mortality.

^Edit. “MORALITY.”...