Move over, abortion — men’s issues are the new taboo topics on campus

Protesters gather outside a University of Toronto lecture hall where author
Warren Farrell in giving an address in November, 2012.

The Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has released its 2013 report on the state of free speech at Canadian universities and lo and behold, the report shows egregious violations on campuses nationwide. Needless to say, I’m not surprised.

The JCCF measured the policies and practices at 45 public Canadian universities, grading them each using a five-tier letter scale. In total, 23 universities received at least one “F”, meaning some form of censorship was employed on campus. According to the “Campus Freedom Index,” the University of Ottawa and Carleton University are the worst schools for free speech in Canada. And grass is green.

The report chronicles the same sort of censorship activities we’ve seen on Canadian campuses for years: pro-life groups being forced to cover their posters or quiet their protest, pro- or anti-Israel activities being tamed or censored and so-called “controversial” speakers getting their microphones turned off before they can even begin. Unfortunately, these sorts of activities are so common on Canadian campuses that we’ve practically come to expect them.

But new to the Campus Freedom Index this year, however, is the topic of men’s issues awareness — a subject that wets the felt-tip markers of the perpetually outraged upon mere mention.  (more...)

Move over, abortion — men’s issues are the new taboo topics on campus