I’d like to thank Bo – the wild-eyed, cursing attendant at my local towing company – for reminding me what it means to be a man. He rattled my core without intending or realizing it, and I became a little better for it. So thanks, Bo. A few weeks ago, my wife threw me a […]
This piece was originally published on Business Insider and is republished here with permission. This is a response to Venture Capitalist Paige Craig’s piece on his concern about women founders and CEOS. First, thanks to Paige for the honesty, humility, and desire to start a dialogue on this important issue. In addition to him airing […]
I like to cook and my fiancée, De’Anna, loves to watch NHL games. It’s funny, she doesn’t really know how to cook and I can count on one hand how many times I’ve tuned in to watch dudes skate, slap a puck, and punch each other bloody. It’s quite fun to be the man who […]
Maggie had a short, blond bob haircut, a round face and light-blue eyes. She was just what you’d expect a cute 12 year old to be. Except she had breasts – not just protruding nipples she decently hid in an over-sized t-shirt, but actual breasts that merited a real ‘grown-up’ bra. She was the first […]
This piece was originally published at the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. I was a fifty-fifty child. After the divorce, my parents divided custody down the middle; my younger brother and I migrated like clockwork between their homes every three and a half days. It was logistically exhausting—which house are my cleats at? Where’s […]
This piece is part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. As we consider of the question of the “end of gender” it’s important to think beyond the shifts we see in society and consider the […]
This piece was originally published on the Good Men Project as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, HyperVocal, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone, The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. Jon Bois is an associate editor at SB Nation. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky. You can tweet at […]
This piece was originally published on the Good Men Project as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, HyperVocal, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone, The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. It has been almost a year since Hanna Rosin penned her provocative and controversial essay entitled, “The […]
