Recently Steve Locke wrote an incredibly on-point and heartfelt piece for The Good Men Project about why he was tired of talking about race. Locke, a talented artist and art professor, explained that “as a black person, I am called on often to speak for my ‘race.’ I can never give an opinion without it being assumed […]
In August the Huffington Post officially launched a new Women’s Section, prompting Nicole Rodgers to write an article for Role/Reboot asking when categorizing topics as “women’s issues” benefits women and when it’s simply a convenient excuse for the rest of the population to ignore women’s concerns. Nicole asked Hugo Schwyzer, a Gender Studies professor and […]
Maybe it’s the romantic in me, but I’m one of those people who loves a wedding. Having had two of my own and attended my fair share, I get a kick out of them. There’s always a couple in love, vows being exchanged, rings on fingers, and a gorgeous dress. Yet, while a wedding ideally […]
This post originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished with permission. In my previous column critiquing Catherine Hakim’s celebration of women’s erotic capital, I shared an anecdote about a student whom I called “Allee.” Allee was a young woman who could have been one of Hakim’s disciples, and in my previous piece, I shared the story […]
This week Nicole appeared on the Deb Colitti Show, along with feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino, to discuss rethinking modern marriage. Click here to listen. Nicole’s interview starts at the 28:11 mark. Photo credit Scorch07/Flickr
This post originally appeared on Strong Men Speak. Republished with permission. In the Boston College Center for Work & Family study The New Dad: Caring Committed and Conflicted we asked fathers how much time they had taken away from work after the birth of their most recent child. More that three-quarters of fathers in the study took […]
The new fall television season is upon us and with it comes the good, the bad, the new, and the tired. However, one show I’m excited about seeing return is The Good Wife, a CBS drama about a lawyer’s wife who stood by her philandering husband. The Good Wife has received critical acclaim for Julianna […]
This post originally appeared on Feministe. Republished with permission. Back when pretty much the only men wearing makeup were either rock lords or Boy George, I privately came up with the guideline that if any particular piece of grooming was something women generally performed while men generally didn’t, I could safely consider it “beauty work.” […]
The post originally appeared on the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. Never mind your tanking 401K or the astronomical price of gold. How’s your erotic capital? According to Catherine Hakim, a professor at the London School of Economics, erotic capital is a combination of “beauty, social skills, good dress sense, physical fitness, liveliness, sex […]
This post originally appeared on the Women’s Media Center. Republished with permission. The author, a nationally recognized authority on the choices women make as they age, analyzes a new study that tracks an unrealistic and stressful standard of perfection for men. In 1963 Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique identified The Problem That Has No Name—a soul-destroying malaise and […]
This post was originally published on Wonderfully Made. Republished with permission. There he goes. He’s texting me again. I thought I was done with this. I promised myself that I would stop this text-relationship. I vowed to only go on real dates with real men, real men who live in my real life! It’s been […]
This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post and New Deal 2.0. Republished with permission. When Sekiko Garrison told former boss Michael Bloomberg she was pregnant, his answer was simple: “Kill it.” Allowing mothers flexible work arrangements, he commented, was like allowing a man time off to practice his golf swing. The CEO who took over when […]
