Men’s shapewear is more popular than ever, and Emilie Littlehales wonders what it says about men and body image. Lately it feels like every time I think I’ve really gotten it (whatever it happens to be), something happens that ultimately shows me how wrong I was. I guess it’s one of those “the more you know, the […]
Emily Heist Moss says her tight yoga pants aren’t the problem, it’s your self-control, dudes. A few weeks ago, I wrote an open letter to a man who harassed my roommate and I outside a Chicago bar. My goal was to address harassers and their apologists and to add a few layers of context around […]
Annamarya Scaccia tells the story of James, a former Marine who was drugged and raped by an older woman when he was 19 years old. James Landrith was 19 years old when he was raped. He met his friend at a club he frequented near Camp Lejeune, the North Carolina base where he was stationed […]
What are we telling young boys if the examples of fatherhood they see everyday are parodies of incompetence? Every time I see a promo for the new Scott Baio sitcom, See Dad Run, I gag a little. I can hardly believe that a) Scott Baio is still working, and b) they’re still pushing this “Idiot Dad” […]
This originally appeared on Mamamia. Republished here with permission. My father was born in 1911, at home in a terrace house in the Sydney, Australia, suburb of Paddington. He was at least six weeks premature and was no bigger than my grandfather’s hand. They kept him in a shoe box and wrapped him in cotton […]
This originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission. It’s pretty common for us to worry about how women, especially our own daughters, are put into gender boxes and encouraged to engage in behavior that hurts them, simply because they’re female. It’s far less common for us to worry about men, including our own […]
After reading Emily Heist Moss’ viral piece about street harassment, Liam Killeen shared it with his group of guy friends in hopes of changing their behavior. Last month, an article written by Emily Heist Moss titled “A Letter To The Guy Who Harassed Me Outside The Bar” made its way to my inbox. It was […]
Much to Robert Wilder’s dismay, his high school students still see feminism as a dirty word, but is he the right person to show them otherwise? Every year about this time, I teach Hamlet to juniors in high school, and eventually we get to the scene where Ophelia drowns. I don’t know if it’s because […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Why Are Women Scared To Call Themselves Feminists? by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com says Katy Perry and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy proudly declare they’re not feminists at a time we need them more than ever. 2. Growing […]
Callum Angus explains how cooking and his boyfriend have helped him understand femininity as a Female-to-Male transsexual. When I was growing up, my self-employed, stay-at-home father did most of the cooking. He would make breakfast in the morning, pack my lunch for school, and have a simple but nutritious dinner on the table for 5pm […]
The recent murder of Kasandra Perkins by her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, and his subsequent suicide, calls into question the root cause of most murder-suicides. When I saw the news Saturday night, I shuddered. In a story that is far too familiar, another man had killed his girlfriend and then himself. Because […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The End Of Violent, Simplistic, Macho Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee of The Atlantic discusses how some men are trying to reform male culture by emphasizing compassion over aggression. 2. The War On Men by Suzanne […]
