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 […]
This originally appeared on Undercover In The Suburbs. Republished here with permission. This is my response to this post entitled 10 Things Guys Should Do On a First Date that my brother brought to my attention. I want to publicly say that this post and the millions of posts like it on the Internet, written by both […]
A stay-at-home dad, Ken Miller hated it when someone at his wife’s corporate functions would ask “What do you do?” until he got some good advice from another party frequenter. The first time I heard it was around 2000, about two or three years after I’d stopped working to stay home for our two kids. […]
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, […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. More Men Enter Fields Dominated By Women by Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff of The New York Times says that more and more men are starting to see the benefits of jobs long-dominated by women. […]
This originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Agustín Fuentes points out that when it comes to men and women, what “everyone knows” isn’t what science shows. Everyone knows that men and women are really different. We think differently and act differently because we are wired differently. I mean look at […]
If terms like “genderqueer” and “pansexual” had been a part of the cultural dialogue years ago, Lyla Cicero wonders if more people today would be living more authentically. I frequently find myself thinking ‘If only you were born now,’ while working with middle-aged people. The few times I actually say it out loud, it’s painfully […]
Vincent O’Keefe, a full-time stay-at-home dad, offers his take on the new romantic comedy What To Expect When You’re Expecting. On the promotional website for the film What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Heidi Murkoff, author of the classic advice guide, declares: “As a passionate dad-vocate, I’ve been determined since the start of this process […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. Wall Street is notorious for its lack of female power brokers. Catalyst reports that women make up only 15% of executive or senior-level officers in investment banking and securities companies. The fall of one of these women results in public scrutiny. Ina Drew of JPMorgan Chase […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. In Praise of Single Mothers by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon of The Atlantic says that politicians accuse them of destroying “the fabric of this country” but, as one daughter attests, they’re holding society together. 2. Share […]
This originally appeared on The Achilles Effect. Republished here with permission. About a year ago, Lisa Bloom wrote an article called “How to Talk to Little Girls” in which she encouraged her readers to talk to young girls about who they are and what they do rather than how they look. I would like to […]
