This article originally appeared on homemadedad.ca. Republished here with permission. One of the trickiest parts of being a primary parenting dad is the moms. I mean, I like moms and sometimes it feels like I have more in common with them than other dads. Yet, this is precisely the tricky part. On a typical day, […]
Recently, I suffered a pretty devastating loss. A guy friend of mine suggested that “I get drunk and fuck” while my gal friends kept reassuring me that “it was OK to cry.” The media portrays women suffering losses as stuffing their faces with the trendy flavor of Ben and Jerry’s. As I move through this […]
Hugo Schwyzer is a male feminist writer and professor of gender studies living in Los Angeles; he’s also the Sex + Relationships editor at The Good Men Project. He has an extremely controversial history that includes four marriages, substance abuse, and sexual behavior that he has since described as compulsive and destructive until he got clean and […]
This originally appeared on The Scale: The Pursuit Of Balance In Life. Republished here with permission. There was a huge response to a recent article in ‘The National Post’ by writer Christie Blatchford regarding the men of Toronto. It was a call for Toronto to stop being a ‘City of Sissies’. In response, I am […]
This article originally appeared on the Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Men in all positions of power need to overcome their fears, Hugo Schwyzer writes, and start making themselves available to members of the opposite sex. I received two similar emails last week asking the same question: Why don’t more men in positions […]
Last month, I became a new father to a beautiful boy. I’ve since thought a lot about my own father, who died 25 years ago and would have loved to see this moment. But a deeper loss than my own struck me the first time my baby boy fell asleep on my chest. All 10 […]
Women, let’s get honest: Would you like men to change? Would you like them to be more emotionally sensitive and expressive? Would you love men to support your campaign to truly be equals and to champion your wins? In the last 50 years, women have made great strides in becoming the women they want to […]
This post was originally published on The Good Men Project. Republished with permission. Nicole Johnson argues that societal tropes of masculine strength and perseverance obscure the fact that emotional damage can destroy a man. I have been the beneficiary of magnificent male mentors. From dating tips to elevator pitches, I have received outstanding advice from men. […]
This piece was originally posted on the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. As we continue to assess the fall-out from the Penn State scandal, a near-consensus has developed that “Old Boys’ Networks” are a huge part of the problem. Whether they’re found in corporations or athletic departments or churches, Old Boys’ Networks often tend […]
It’s been weeks since the Penn State child molestation scandal broke and most of my fellow alums are ready to move on. They’re done condemning the riot and commending the candlelight vigil, finished with the Facebook trolling and the self-congratulatory donations to RAINN. They flip the dial when NPR moves from Egypt to Happy Valley, […]
This piece was originally published at the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. Upon finishing The Atlantic’s November cover story “All the Single Ladies” I found myself focusing on the words “deadbeat,” “player,” and “good man.” I don’t disagree with Bolick about what women are facing in the changing landscape of relationships between men and women. […]
This piece originally appeared on the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze opens today* at the SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. A remarkable art exhibit, Man as Object deliberately centers the female gaze—and puts men’s bodies on display in a way that we rarely see. (See the exhibition’s Youtube video here. Warning: […]
