I was surprisingly touched by this simple, wise letter by Dan Mulhern to his son, on how to be a Real Man today. Surrounded by a recent sea of articles heralding the end of men, or decrying a male/masculinity crisis, its easy to lose site of how liberating a moment this could be for men […]
This post debates whether there is harm in a mom (Martha) watching the royal wedding with her daughter. In fact, Martha has made quite a to-do of it which includes keeping her daughter home from pre-school to celebrate. Patrick Malone, clearly a feminist man, argues effectivly that there is enough fairy princess stuff out in […]
This article caught my eye because of its headline in the UK newspaper The Daily Mail. It is the word shame that got to me and the way it was used. It annoyed me given the fact that US women are doing a lot better on advancement than women throughout Europe and the word shame […]
The consistent finding that women are more anxious than men (in fact, twice as prone to anxiety according to many studies) is endlessly fascinating, albeit a bit concerning. At the heart of this finding is a very controversial nurture vs. nature debate – the type that underlies the most layered and persistent gender questions. Personally, […]
Unprotected sex calms a woman more than sex when a condom is used? Who the heck would even think to study this? It reminds me of old psychological studies of women designed to address women’s “hysteria”- then thought to be a widespread problem. The head of a surgeons group then went ahead and wrote an […]
If you ever wanted to incite a gender war, look no further than the folks from Male Studies. A seemingly sexist, not-terribly-academic bunch, it seems that in their “field” longing for the days of loin cloths and chest-pounding masculinity doesn’t make you out of touch. We’ve written about Male Studies before (here and here), […]
Ladies, if you have money and independence, are you really placing priority on looking for a man who is hot? A new study apparently says that wealthier women now value looks more than financial security since they can really take care of themselves. Men, meanwhile, have not changed much. They want younger, beautiful women. So […]
Ok, here’s a real puzzler. Is it ok for women to post pictures of hot guys on the Tube (the British subway system) without their knowledge? Is it a step toward equality or away from it for women to appreciate and share pictures of men based on their looks alone? I think this site is […]
This article could set dreams of shared parenting and gender equality back decades. I applaud the honesty of the writer but wonder how much of what was described really has to do with parenting versus a dysfunctional relationship among two people with many idiosyncrasies. The first thing that struck me is the attempt to plan […]
I applaud the idea behind McKinsey & Company’s new special report, Unlocking the full potential of women in the U.S. economy, which hits on a number of important issues including why more women are not getting into higher management positions; how choices about the quality of the work/life balance affect both men and women; and […]
So, if a boy wears pink toe polish he must be transgendered or perhaps the pink polish will cause him to be transgendered? Crazy. This belief and reaction has some of its roots in how we used to think about gender identity. When I first studied child development in the early 70s people believed that […]
Considering how much recent attention has been paid to men’s porn habits and the problems this habit appear to cause for some, it’s perhaps not surprising that – according to this article – women are apparently using more porn, too. Admittedly, the “evidence” cited in the article on women’s increasing porn use is questionable, particularly […]
