Demanding 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 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 ArticleHer Looks, Your Status: Why Men’s Claims Not to Care About Beauty Ring Hollow
Male sexual desire, Hugo Schwyzer writes, is shaped by a desire for the approval of other men.One of the enduring myths about female beauty is that it’s not something about which men really care all...
View ArticleSacred Archetypes of Modern Masculinity: The Green Man
That which is within the planet is within you._________Archetypes are recurrent symbols that offer spiritual advice to men and women as we travel the journey of life. This is the third in a 12-part...
View ArticleTalking to Your Daughter About Beauty
‘I still remember the names of two girls my father identified as pretty in a fifth-grade class picture.’—–If you’re trying to be a good dad (and you’re reading this site, so I think you are), you know...
View ArticleMen Must Be Needed Because We Can’t Be Wanted
We believe we have to be the heroes only because we can’t yet see other roles for ourselves.Running an online magazine about masculinity, I’ve come to observe a curious phenomenon. When we post about...
View ArticleHow Does a Caring Father Respond When a TSA Agent Tells His Daughter to...
Hugo Schwyzer believes we can all learn something from Mark Frauenfelder, who stood up for his daughter after being shamed for what she was wearing.On Sunday morning – Father’s Day — writer Mark...
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...
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 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 of...
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 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 ArticleIs Dad Blogging a Kind of Ambulance Chasing?
Blogging on the princess industrial complex and other hot-button parenting issues leaves Zach Rosenberg feeling conflictedCheck my Google Drive: I’ve got 50-or-so documents three-quarters written that...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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