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<span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><span><span><b>The Institute for Ethics in Public Life invites you to join us for "Masculinity in America" at 3:30pm on Wednesday, April 16 (in-person or on Zoom), with special guest Dr. Lee Thorpe of the Department of Sociology.</b></span></span><br><span> </span><br></span></span><div style="margin-left:40px"><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><span>What does it mean to be a "man" in America? This has not been an easy question to answer for quite some time, perhaps ever, but in recent years it has become a big social and political issue. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrote<a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/War-Warriors-Behind-Betrayal-Keep/dp/0063389428&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1744914241321228&usg=AOvVaw23Twm3ebLReaOtpD3xVGjm" target="_blank"> a book</a> where he argued that women should not serve in combat roles and that efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion had made the US military weak and "effeminate." <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/north-carolina-gop-candidate-mark-robinson-wants-america-where-women-could-not-vote-1234982773/&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1744914241321228&usg=AOvVaw0VFI2GdK37FlxKilCFLOuX" target="_blank">Political candidates</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/22/ann-coulter-says-women-shouldnt-have-right-vote-19th-amendment-missouri-state-university/8528256002/&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1744914241321228&usg=AOvVaw3awhYXn6LoIR0SoDunQcfL" target="_blank">pundits </a>have argued that women shouldn't have the right to vote. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson produced <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nation.foxnews.com/tucker-carlson-originals-the-end-of-men-nation/&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1744914241321228&usg=AOvVaw3b3U9Y3dQPOoksA9h4RpYY" target="_blank">a documentary</a> arguing that we're facing the "end of men," due to "collapsing testosterone levels." <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/what-is-pronatalism-right-wing-republican&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1744914241321228&usg=AOvVaw22pBlYEATAasQhp5xNR0NF" target="_blank">Elon Musk and VP JD Vance are part of a "pro-natalist" movement</a> that wants to roll-back social gains made by women in the name of increasing the birth rate. And <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mediamatters.org/five/fox-news-chyron-trumps-manly-tariffs&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1744914241321228&usg=AOvVaw3xMShFK2RcTO_90BcBBibL" target="_blank">Fox News hosts have argued</a> that Trump's tariffs will make the US economy more "manly."</span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><span></span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><span></span><span>What is going on? Why have gender and gender roles become major political issues? To understand this, we need to consider the ways that politics, the economy, and society have always been gendered in the United States. This creates an environment where changes in gender roles and social structures can become major political issues. To this traditional source we can add <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-masculinity-crisis-how-economic&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1744914241321228&usg=AOvVaw2UhDGrJE_KlmiIzkP06eut" target="_blank">social media</a>, which contributes to the radicalization of young men already alienated by economic and social change.</span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><span></span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><span>F<span>or today's conversation we welcome Dr. Lee Thorpe, Assistant Professor of Sociology, to help us understand these issues and more. </span><span><span>Dr. Thorpe joined the <span>faculty at </span>SUNY Plattsburgh as the PRODiG Fellow in Fall 2022. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from West Virginia University,<span> a </span>Master of Arts in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University, and <span>a</span> Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Stony Brook University. During his master’s program, Dr. Thorpe studied abroad in the Netherlands and took part in the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society at the University of Amsterdam. His primary areas of research and teaching interests are in sexualities, gender, social psychology, and sociological theory.</span></span></span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span> </span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Daniel Lake is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.</span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span></span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Topic: Masculinity in America</span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Time: Apr 16, 2025 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)</span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span>Join Zoom Meeting</span></span><br><span class="gmail-kma42e"><span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/85789244683&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1744914241321228&usg=AOvVaw0pn_n4dPhYqK1wBkLEYHmz" target="_blank">https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/85789244683</a></span></span>
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<div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b>Upcoming at the Institute (</b>all events at 3:30pm, in-person and Zoom, unless otherwise noted<b>)</b>:</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"><b>Apr. 23 </b>- Ethical issues with the commercialization of space, with Dr. John McMahon, Department of Political Science.</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"><b>Apr. 30</b> - Intellectual Property and AI, with Dr. John Chambers, Department of Communications Studies.</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;margin-left:40px" class="gmail_default"><b>May 7</b> - Social Media and Education, with Prof. Bridget Haina and Dr. Shakuntala Rao, Department of Communications Studies.</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">You can also see upcoming events on the Institute's <a href="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/about/centers/ethics-in-public-life/programs.html" target="_blank">Program and Events webpage</a> or add the <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=Y19sa245c3MxcjdscjExdmM0ZzNtMDlyaDUyb0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t" target="_blank">Institute's public calendar</a> to your Google Calendar. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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