Society says we should be elated for our friends and relatives who announce engagements, weddings, and babies, but happiness isn’t always the feeling that comes up. It’s almost a week later, and I am still finding glittery confetti in strange places. It’s a strange, but not unpleasant problem to have. There is something particularly intoxicating […]
The cliche of men ignoring their rambling wives on the phone isn’t just tired, it’s disrespectful to both men and women. So why is an old commercial depicting just that getting so much recent attention online? The world of Reddit tends to draw witty, connected, a tad nerdy, and generally tasteful individuals to its tomes […]
Andrew Smiler discusses the importance of men asking for help, and why “going it alone” can only do harm. Men don’t seek therapy as often as they probably should. That’s not exactly surprising: In stereotype and caricature, we make fun of men’s unwillingness to ask for directions, to read the manual, or to call for […]
Hugo Schwyzer responds to a recent op-ed that attempts to assign blame for the growing number of women suffering from body image issues, and offers another source of their strife: male disengagement. The body image crisis is a perennial hot topic in women’s magazines, but in 2012, it’s getting global attention like never before. From […]
In response to Al Watts’ piece on insisting his wife keep her own last name, Mark Kemp discusses how he finally convinced his own wife to let him take her last name. I read Al Watts’ wonderful piece on what he publicly admits is a mistake he made in his marriage: opposing his wife’s suggestion that […]
This originally appeared on Momaha.com. Republished here with permission. Have you ever done something that at the time you thought was the right thing to do but now realize that it may have been a mistake? And to make it worse, your spouse TOLD you it was a mistake?! When I was in college, I […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. In Praise of Single Mothers by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon of The Atlantic says that politicians accuse them of destroying “the fabric of this country” but, as one daughter attests, they’re holding society together. 2. Share […]
In response to Alice Randall’s recent New York Times article, “Black Women and Fat,” Jenn Leyva discusses her own experience with race, class, and being fat. A little over a week ago, Alice Randall published an article entitled “Black Women and Fat” in The New York Times. Randall argues that Black women have different experiences […]
