Comment on State Department Spending $592,500 to ‘Explore Gender Identities of Boys and Men in Kenya’

State Department Spending $592,500 to ‘Explore Gender Identities of Boys and Men in Kenya’

The State Department announced a new $600,000 taxpayer-funded study that suggests "ideals of masculinity" in Kenya are contributing to terrorism.The department's Bureau of Counterterrorism is seeking a nonprofit group to "explore gender identities of boys and men in Kenya." The grant proposal states that men being "tough, heterosexual, aggressive, unemotional, and achieving" can make them vulnerable to joining Islamic extremist groups."Gender is increasingly recognized as an essential aspect to understanding and countering violent extremism throughout the world," the State Department said.

 

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