Role Reboot

Why Elliot Rodger, And All Men, Have To Earn Their Masculinity

In our culture, masculinity is considered something you earn, while femininity is considered an essential quality. You just are a woman, while you have to work to earn the right to be a man. I have a Google alert set for the phrase “how to be a man” because I recently published a short story collection by that title. […]

4 Ways Sexist, Macho Culture Hurts Men

This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. Macho culture–the perpetuation of hypermasculinity, dominance, violence, bravado–can be deadly, particularly for women. According to the World Health Organization, women in the United States are victims of intimate partner violence at a rate about five times that of men, and the United Nations has found that the most common form […]