This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Why Are Women Scared To Call Themselves Feminists? by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com says Katy Perry and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy proudly declare they’re not feminists at a time we need them more than ever. 2. Growing […]
The recent murder of Kasandra Perkins by her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, and his subsequent suicide, calls into question the root cause of most murder-suicides. When I saw the news Saturday night, I shuddered. In a story that is far too familiar, another man had killed his girlfriend and then himself. Because […]
It’s hard to get into the season when it feels like Christmas is just the time of year when Christians try to shove their beliefs down your throat, says Lynn Beisner. It is the time of year when liberals everywhere get accused of waging war on Christmas. We don’t, of course, but pointing out that […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The End Of Violent, Simplistic, Macho Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee of The Atlantic discusses how some men are trying to reform male culture by emphasizing compassion over aggression. 2. The War On Men by Suzanne […]
There’s more to equality than jumping on the raunch culture bandwagon. When the far right gets hysterical about gender roles, one of their go-to paranoid delusions is the accusation that feminists are trying to turn men into women and women into men. There are extremists in any movement, to be sure, but the majority of […]
A much-needed men’s revolution will first require a re-imagining of our social structure, says Lynn Beisner. One afternoon, I was in our university’s library, struggling to read Chaucer in the original Old English. A book on a nearby shelf caught my eye, and out of curiosity and a desperation to avoid any more of the […]
Are men more likely to be harsh critics, and point out flaws in order to fix them? After having worked in restaurants and writing about them occasionally, I consider myself a fairly discerning diner. I don’t turn up my nose at an unfortunate choice in cutlery, but I have certain expectations for food and service, […]
This originally appeared on The American Prospect. Republished here with permission. The women’s movement isn’t the enemy of men, like Venker believes; instead, it can serve as inspiration for a new generation of men who wish to rewrite masculinity. The “war on men” article on the Fox News website, which—spoiler alert!—blames women for ruining modern men, has been snaking […]
