Lyla Cicero offers her fiery take on Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” Iceland, Germany, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Latvia, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Czhech Republic, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Ecuador, and a total of 178 countries have federally mandated paid maternity leave. Fifty of these countries offer leave to fathers. (Yes, they all […]
Hugo Schwyzer responds to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s recent Atlantic piece, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.” Like everyone else this month, I’ve been reading one of the great viral articles of the first half of 2012: Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Why Women Still Can’t Have it All. Loosely defined as a satisfying, lucrative career, a stable romantic […]
Christine Woodman offers a follow-up to her piece from last week about Mark Regnerus, the sociologist who claims gay parents are bad for children. Last week I wrote about Mark Regnerus’ paper on the host of negative outcomes created by LGBT parenting. In my article I suggested that perhaps Regnerus’ study was deliberately flawed in […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The Upside to All the Online Chatter About ‘Girls’ by Rolf Potts of The Atlantic says the debate about Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy is more varied and sophisticated than cultural conversations of 20 years ago. […]
Christine Woodman urges readers to take action against Mark Regnerus, author of a recent study that claims gay and lesbian parents are dangerous to children in an attempt to advance his own religious and political agenda. This week, sociologist Mark Regnerus published a study which seems to show that the children of gay and lesbian […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. A BDSM Blacklist by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com says that a Facebook-like site for kinksters stops users from naming alleged abusers, sparking debate over justice and safety. 2. Media Ignores Rash of Assaults on Transgender […]
The latest incident of a female teacher sexually involved with her male student came out just last week, but it’s not as clear-cut as some previous scandals. Hugo Schwyzer takes a look at the facts and suggests that the victimizer in this case may also be the victim. Since the Mary Kay Letourneau-Vili Fualaau story […]
Shaming anyone for engaging in any kind of non-exploitative, consensual sex—even if it makes you queasy—is a slippery slope. Lynn Beisner explains why tolerance is best. I think that we can safely dispense with the fiction that John Edwards was prosecuted for campaign finance crimes and admit the obvious: He was really on trial for […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Five Myths About Marriage by Stephanie Coontz of The Washington Post asks: Is marriage really better for the community? 2. S/He by Jesse Green of New York Magazine says parents of transgender children are faced […]
In response to a recent Washington Post article that asserts that two-parent households are better, Perry Threlfall defends single motherhood and says that getting married just to raise a child could prove disastrous. In her recent Washington Post opinion piece, “20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried […]
This originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Have you seen the photo circulating this week of a little boy in the Oval Office touching President Obama’s hair? The New York Times explains how this photo came to be: The boy in the picture is Jacob Philadelphia of Columbia, Md. Three years ago […]
Andrew Smiler, Ph.D., asks if a shift in gender stereotypes or economics is responsible for the increase in men in women-dominated professions in the United States. Over the last decade, the number of men in female-dominated professions has increased notably, according to New York Times reporters Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff. Men are becoming teachers, […]
