{"id":25385,"date":"2013-09-12T01:08:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T04:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25385"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:52:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:52:41","slug":"female-usafa-cadets-majority-of-masculinity-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/female-usafa-cadets-majority-of-masculinity-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Female USAFA Cadets Majority of Masculinity Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Colorado Springs Gazette<\/em>, local to the US Air Force Academy, highlighted USAFA&#8217;s addition of an academic <a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/video-air-force-academy-aiming-for-culture-change-offers-men-and-masculinity-class\/article\/1505756\">elective entitled &#8220;Men and Masculinity&#8221;<\/a> (previously <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/military-reviews-moral-solutions-to-causes-of-sexual-assault\/\">noted here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Visiting Professor Christopher Kilmartin, of the University of Mary Washington, is teaching a course on masculinity at the U.S. Air Force Academy this semester, as part of a new program to discourage sexual assaults&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My job as an educator is to name the pressure&#8221; that exists for males to conform to unhealthy masculine stereotypes, Kilmartin continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article notes the elective is filled with cadets, &#8220;most of whom are female.&#8221;\u00a0 Females make up less than 20% of the cadet wing.<\/p>\n<p>No word on when USAFA will offer a course of &#8220;Women and Femininity&#8221; &#8212; or if most of the students would be male.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Springs Gazette, local to the US Air Force Academy, highlighted USAFA&#8217;s addition of an academic elective entitled &#8220;Men and Masculinity&#8221; (previously noted here). Visiting Professor Christopher Kilmartin, of the University of Mary Washington, is teaching a course on masculinity at the U.S. Air Force Academy this semester, as part of a new program to discourage sexual assaults&#8230; &#8220;My [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[134,4075,2,1970,65],"class_list":["post-25385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-air-force","tag-christopher-kilmartin","tag-military","tag-sexual-assault","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}