The post originally appeared on the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. Never mind your tanking 401K or the astronomical price of gold. How’s your erotic capital? According to Catherine Hakim, a professor at the London School of Economics, erotic capital is a combination of “beauty, social skills, good dress sense, physical fitness, liveliness, sex […]
This post was originally published on Wonderfully Made. Republished with permission. There he goes. He’s texting me again. I thought I was done with this. I promised myself that I would stop this text-relationship. I vowed to only go on real dates with real men, real men who live in my real life! It’s been […]
This post was originally published on the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. Last month, Mark D. White made some good points about how a professional woman may view, judge, and even castigate a man who does not share the same professional status, particularly when she makes more money than he does. Though it seemed over-simplified and […]
A new study by University of Buffalo sociologists suggests the answer is yes, indeed. This may be well-tread territory, but we think we need to go there anyway. One reason is what we call the “tyranny of the shoulds.” The study, entitled “Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of […]
I’ll admit it up front: what I’m about to say is probably going to sound defensive. But to give you some background, I’m a little tapped out these days and not at my most generous. As a parent to 4-year-old twins, a senior director at a small non-profit, and the wife of a workaholic, I’m […]
This post was originally published at the Good Men Project. Republished with permission of the author. Fact: women are too often judged solely on their appearance and treated differently based on how they measure up to men’s ideas of what they should look like. This much is obvious, and I’m sure the majority of us […]
I have always disliked being approached by men in bars. Cheesy pick-up lines that I might otherwise find marginally amusing somehow become creepy in the low light, screamed over the deep pulse of bass-heavy music. I don’t appreciate that a night out dancing inevitably means that some dude is going to come up behind me […]
This post was originally published at HyperVocal. I never thought I would be single with no children at 35. I was ready to marry my first boyfriend Mike when I was 15 and lost my virginity to him. As a Catholic, I convinced myself that as long as I married him, it was okay to […]
