The Best of GMP’s Family and Relationship Writing
This is the fourth of a series of posts we’ll be running this week, featuring editor’s picks from all of our favorite categories. Some of our favorite stories about men’s relationships with the...
View ArticleAre Men Needy? No, Men are Good!
Anytime we get into these vast summary statements about one gender or the other it is fraught with peril. I have definitely learned that the hard way. One can say that men are at an end, education...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Women’s Requests of Progressive Men
Do some women who encourage men to be more emotional and engaged, end up losing respect for the men who do so? Late last night, I followed a series of tweets by GMP Editor Joanna Schroeder who was in...
View ArticleWhat Is a Good Man?
Tom Matlack finds that defining goodness is not science, it’s art. The further I get into this good men thing, the less I feel like I know. For quite a while now I have been committed to the idea that...
View ArticleDemanding Feminist Perfection From Men
Lynn Beisner knows her husband isn’t the perfect feminist, but he is the best man she could imagine loving. Recently a friend of mine wrote a Facebook post blasting people who use water bottles and...
View ArticleOn Withholding Sex
Joanna Schroeder offers a practical guideline to couples who are challenged with mis-matched libidos. Let’s be honest—sex is a big deal. Great sex makes you feel like you’ve transcended into some...
View ArticleThe Utility of Rape Porn
Under what circumstances is it acceptable to simulate non-consensual or violent sex? Defining porn Everyone has their own images of what porn is, their own definitions, and, it seems, objections to...
View ArticleI’m in Love With a Married Redneck
A man asks Eli and Josie for help in keeping the attention of his married girlfriend. Dear Sexes: I’m seeing a married woman and we love each other but with that I have a lot of doubts. First we are...
View ArticleEvidence for the Reality of the Uncontrollable Boner & the Abominable Snowman
Lori Lothian explores the evolutionary biology behind why men cheat, and why women forgive them. In his most recent Jezebel article, gender studies professor Hugo Schwyzer wants us to believe that the...
View ArticleMen Deserve Real Empathy, Not Deference
Julie Gillis challenges a New York Times Op-Ed that insists that women should show deference to the men who feel they are losing privilege in a changing world. Recently, in light of the Connecticut...
View ArticleThis Much I Know To Be True
Talking about the most difficult parts of manhood—like race, rape, addiction, parenting, porn, divorce, depression, guns, prison, war and suicide—have a way of stirring up great waves of controversy...
View ArticleGMP Founder Admits to Use of Make-Up
It started so innocently. A Christmas Eve email from the New York Times asking me to write a 300 word column on make-up. I knew I had a secret obsession with my own lipstick and face paint, but I had...
View ArticleWhat if the ‘Nice Guys of OK Cupid’ is Harming Innocent People?
Joanna Schroeder has known a lot of Nice Guys™ and understands the frustration and fear women feel as a result, but believes the bullying and humiliation happening on Nice Guys of OK Cupid is out of...
View ArticleJust Doing My Job
Justin Cascio’s life has been changed by the writers who reveal their own lives—and the taboos of our society. I write all day long. Why don’t I publish anything? I complain to my publisher. She’s a...
View ArticleIs Dad Blogging a Kind of Ambulance Chasing?
Blogging on the princess industrial complex and other hot-button parenting issues leaves Zach Rosenberg feeling conflicted Check my Google Drive: I’ve got 50-or-so documents three-quarters written...
View ArticleOn Sex, Rape, Addiction and Adam From ‘Girls’
In this guest post, Hugo Schwyzer weighs in on the most controversial episode of Lena Dunham’s “Girls” ever. Since Sunday’s airing of “On all Fours,” the darkest and most troubling Girls episode yet,...
View ArticleSaying ‘No’ Is the Compassionate and Respectful Thing to Do
Joanna Schroeder and Hugo Schwyzer react to a moving Salon article where a woman finally realizes she isn’t responsible for being taken advantage of by a 20 year-old man, when she was only 12. In a...
View Article5 Unrealistic Sex Moves Men Learn from Watching Porn
Lori Lothian believes porn has the potential to mislead men about the best bedroom moves to use with real-life women. I had a discussion the other day with a female sex educator about porn. The gist...
View ArticleI’m a Dad and I Don’t Want the Government to Force My Daughter to Talk to Me...
Hugo Schwyzer, father of a daughter and a son, supports unfettered access to emergency contraception like Plan B. The following is an opinion editorial on making Plan B, an emergency contraceptive,...
View ArticleMen, Fox News is Trying to Tell You That You’re Crappy Parents
The dudes at Fox News may say they’re defending masculinity with their claims that society will fall apart if women out-earn men, but truth is that they think men are inflexible beasts. The Pew...
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