If your young niece’s favorite colors were pink and purple, would you deny her a Christmas gift in those colors just to buck gender norms? Don’t tell my family, but of all the people on my Christmas shopping list, my 6-year-old niece and 3-year-old nephew are the most important. They’re also the most fun to […]
Alyssa Robinson proves that even some of today’s feminists adored pink and girly gifts when they were children. Please take a moment to stifle your gag reflexes, because I’m about to take you down gender normative lane. I’m going to take you back to the 1990s, when I was all cute and tiny, and when […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Why Are Women Scared To Call Themselves Feminists? by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com says Katy Perry and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy proudly declare they’re not feminists at a time we need them more than ever. 2. Growing […]
Ashley Lauren Samsa applauds a young girl’s petition to the CEO of Hasbro to start featuring boys in its Easy-Bake Oven promotional material. My husband and I don’t have children yet so, fortunately, we are able to put off the struggle to explain to relatives and friends why we want our kids to receive whatever […]
Callum Angus explains how cooking and his boyfriend have helped him understand femininity as a Female-to-Male transsexual. When I was growing up, my self-employed, stay-at-home father did most of the cooking. He would make breakfast in the morning, pack my lunch for school, and have a simple but nutritious dinner on the table for 5pm […]
Emily Rapp explores the contradictory pieces of dating advice that say “play hard to get” and “just be yourself.” Popular dating advice for women between the ages of 25 and 40, the targeted demographic of women’s magazines where these articles appear, often suggests that we play hard to get, or, at the very least, engage […]
The recent murder of Kasandra Perkins by her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, and his subsequent suicide, calls into question the root cause of most murder-suicides. When I saw the news Saturday night, I shuddered. In a story that is far too familiar, another man had killed his girlfriend and then himself. Because […]
This originally appeared on Mamamia. Republished here with permission. You need six friends. Count them, six. Each must serve a different purpose, and together, they should meet all your friendship needs. I read that online this week so it must be true. I’m not sure who came up with the magic number six, possibly the […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The End Of Violent, Simplistic, Macho Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee of The Atlantic discusses how some men are trying to reform male culture by emphasizing compassion over aggression. 2. The War On Men by Suzanne […]
Men may joke around more about their appearance, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to body image issues. Ever since my niece was born seven years ago, I’ve worried about what will happen when another girl teases her about some aspect of her appearance. The way I see it, there’s no chance that it won’t happen; by […]
A much-needed men’s revolution will first require a re-imagining of our social structure, says Lynn Beisner. One afternoon, I was in our university’s library, struggling to read Chaucer in the original Old English. A book on a nearby shelf caught my eye, and out of curiosity and a desperation to avoid any more of the […]
This originally appeared on The American Prospect. Republished here with permission. The women’s movement isn’t the enemy of men, like Venker believes; instead, it can serve as inspiration for a new generation of men who wish to rewrite masculinity. The “war on men” article on the Fox News website, which—spoiler alert!—blames women for ruining modern men, has been snaking […]
