In 2008, New York Magazine reported on a small group of men sitting in a bleak room on 13th street, commiserating, offering support, and trying to come up with something other than “small penis” to describe their “affliction”: “We’ve been throwing around other names,” says John Miller, a stocky man with a therapeutic manner. “People have suggested […]
A quick click through evening television reveals America’s obsession with the huge white family. A short list would include oldies like “The Brady Bunch,” “The Partridge Family,” “7th Heaven” and “The Waltons,” as well newer entries in the scripted and reality show genres (“Big Love,” “Sister Wives,” “19 Kids and Counting,” “Kate Plus Eight”). If television […]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court released its decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart sex discrimination case. The court decided 5-4 that up to 1.5 million female employees cannot be treated as a class and file suit together. The court’s conservative members raised questions not just about whether the women claimed discrimination through the same mechanisms, but also about […]
1. I’m unsure why, but I get asked—quite often—about the hardest part of being a father. The people who ask me this are almost all younger cats who are about to become fathers or are there already. That question is a Pandora’s Box. Being a father is hard in a million different ways: Balancing fatherhood […]
In a new post on Tiger Beatdown, Sady Doyle comments on the controversy surrounding the misogynistic and sexually violent lyrics in Tyler, the Creator’s new album. Last week, Tyler, the Creator, of the hip-hop collective Odd Future, released the album “Goblin”, which includes lyrics such as “I just wanna drag your lifeless body to the […]
This blog is an interesting reflection on being a feminist written by a man who grew up poor and black. In families where men are absent, women do everything and display their resilience and strength every day. They don’t call themselves feminists but their daily activities send the message that women (rightly or wrongly) are […]
