Topic: Gender Roles

  • Man Up: The CEO Of "Light Beer" Takes Issue With Miller Lite

    This piece was originally published on the Good Men Project as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, HyperVocal, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone, The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. Jon Bois is an associate editor at SB Nation. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky. You can tweet at […]

  • Why We Should Stop Telling Women To "Have It All"

    This piece was originally published on YourTango as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. My parents thought they were being clever when they decided to name their youngest daughter Jordan. They envisioned a grizzled executive […]

  • Grindr, Gay Sex, and Gender As Usual

    This piece was originally published on HyperVocal as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. In June 2011, the creators of Grindr, a popular gay and bisexual smartphone app, announced that they had reached 2 million […]

  • Higher Education: A Key to Avoiding the "End of Men"?

    This piece is part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. I grew up in a working-class family that places a high value on education. That’s why I’m immune to the economic, social, and personal turmoil […]

  • A (Proud) Solider in the Gender War

    This piece was originally published on the Good Men Project as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, HyperVocal, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone, The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. I’d like to present a hypothetical situation. What if you discovered that the words “girls are allergic […]

  • Guys and Sports: A Perfect Union?

    This piece was originally published on the Good Men Project as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, HyperVocal, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone, The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. It has been almost a year since Hanna Rosin penned her provocative and controversial essay entitled, “The […]

  • The Gender Pendulum

    This piece originally appeared on the Good Men Project as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, HyperVocal, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone, The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. The day I met Jean Kilbourne I was in Dallas attending the International Boys’ School Coalition’s annual conference. Ms. Kilbourne […]

  • Guys: It’s Time to Get Liberated

    This piece is part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. Hanna Rosin’s now-famous Atlantic cover story, The End of Men, made me cringe instantly. You’d have to be an idiot to look at all the […]

  • The End of Men, From One Lesbian’s Perspective

    This piece is part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, HyperVocal, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. As a lesbian, it is always an interesting experience to join a conversation on changing gender roles and the future of the role of […]

  • Not My Feminism

    Yesterday, a blogger known as “Quiet Riot Girl” contributed this piece to the ongoing conversation about rape at The Good Men Project. I read this piece with a lump in my throat. It was not so much a lump of anger, but instead a feeling of sadness for the fundamental misunderstandings of feminism the piece reinforces. As a […]

  • With or Without Boobs

    Last week, comedian Wanda Sykes announced that she’d undergone a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. To some, Sykes’s surgery seemed radical; after all, some doctors don’t even consider ductal carcinoma in situ cancer at all. But Sykes joins a growing cohort of women who, in the face of cancer, even […]

  • Is What Men and Women Say We Want and What We’re Attracted to the Same Thing?

    This piece is a conversation between Hugo Schwyzer, a Gender Studies professor and Sex and Relationship Editor at the Good Men Project, and Nicole Rodgers, the President and co-founder of Role/Reboot. This article is cross-posted at Role/Reboot and the Good Men Project. Hugo: Both sexes regularly accuse the other of being inconsistent when it comes […]