This article originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Sarah Buttenwieser reminds us that you don’t have to purchase gender at the clothing or toy store–or as seen on TV. Practically from the moment I let anyone know I was pregnant with my first child—now 16—the very first question seemed to […]
Republished here with permission from Kristin Maschka’s blog. A recent tweet from the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute pointed me to this Washington Post article, Study: Single-Sex Education May Do More Harm Than Good. I have always been opposed to single-sex schools myself. I believe single-sex schools make it harder for boys and girls […]
This originally appeared on CharlieGlickman.com. Republished here with permission. One of the difficulties that those of us who are looking to challenge the Act Like a Man Box (see my post The Performance of Masculinity for an explanation of that, if you aren’t familiar with it) is that the Box itself gets in the way. […]
Making New Year’s resolutions about work/life balance? If you want to tilt the scales towards either more working or more living this year, how much control does your household have to make it happen? Work/life balance conversations inevitably get framed in terms of work quantity. Are we working too much, or too little? How well […]
This piece was originally published on CitiScoop: The Insider’s Guide to Modern Parenting. Republished here with permission. I have been an at-home parent for the last six years, and during that time, I have struggled to find an identity beyond parenthood. There have been many stories in the press lately about work-life balance—usually about professionals […]
I have been an at-home dad for nine years. Or, at least I thought I had been. It turns out I may have been an at-home or stay-at-home dad (SAHD) for only four years. Most of the last nine years I may have been only a primary caregiver. Confused? Yeah, me too. The confusion lies […]
Republished here with permission from The Good Men Project. I’m the older of two children. When my little sister was born, I was three and a half years old, and I got some version of the story of where babies come from. Later, when I was old enough to be curious about puberty, I read […]
This article originally appeared on the Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Andrew D. S. James takes a look at his own personal views of masculinity in response to the debate sparked by Tom Matlack’s recent posts. Tom’s piece “Being a Dude is a Good Thing” has troubled me. His narrative about how men, […]
This article originally appeared on homemadedad.ca. Republished here with permission. One of the trickiest parts of being a primary parenting dad is the moms. I mean, I like moms and sometimes it feels like I have more in common with them than other dads. Yet, this is precisely the tricky part. On a typical day, […]
Role/Reboot regular contributor Hugo Schwyzer is a male feminist writer and professor of gender studies living in Los Angeles; he’s also the Sex + Relationships editor at The Good Men Project. He has an extremely controversial history that includes four marriages, substance abuse, and sexual behavior that he has since described as compulsive and destructive until […]
This originally appeared on The Scale: The Pursuit Of Balance In Life. Republished here with permission. There was a huge response to a recent article in ‘The National Post’ by writer Christie Blatchford regarding the men of Toronto. It was a call for Toronto to stop being a ‘City of Sissies’. In response, I am […]
The Role Roundtable is a collaboration between Role/Reboot and the Good Men Project. Nicole: Women have a relatively limited fertility window and men don’t. This seems to create a tricky imbalance for many men and women. Do you think men have any responsibility to work with the timeframe of their female peers? Hugo: To be […]
