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Why One Male College Student Abandoned Affirmative Consent (via The Atlantic)
Interesting . . . raises some interesting issues that men must deal with regularly, but that seldom get brought up in the discussions around consent.Perhaps this is a discussion that people should have...
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Will 'Cisgender' Survive?
Not the people, the word.I think this is actually a very useful word - it removes the normativity of the male/female binary. I also like genderqueer as a way to subvert the binary.Will 'Cisgender'...
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Are You a Member of Generation Stupid?
Funny and, sadly, partially true of a lot of the young people I see around these days. Like a group of five college kids sitting at a table in a coffee shop - ALL of them staring into their phones and...
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Fitness Friday: Fitness News You Can Use
This week on Fitness Friday, we have articles on carbohydrate tolerance (Performance Nutrition), the anti-estrogenic properties of kelp (Journal of Nutrition), intermittent hypoxic resistance training...
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This Is What Developing Acute Schizophrenia Feels Like (via Vice)
This is an amazing first person account of one young man's descent into psychosis and his slow and hopeful recovery. I have to append a warning to this story however - his outcome is great, but your...
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"Force Majeure" - A Movie That Will Change How You Think About Manhood (via...
This review of the new Swedish film Force Majeure (96% Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes), from Esquire, makes it sound equally important for most men to see and painful to have to sit through. Likely, both are...
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Two New Studies on Prostate Cancer with a Surprising Link
Two new studies on prostate cancer have been released in the last couple of days. The first one shows a 3.3 times greater risk of fatal cardiac events (heart attacks) in men who undergo androgen...
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Proposal - Relational Education Through Dance
One of the biggest issues I see in how young men relate to young women is the lack of empathy and compassion for their experience (and vice versa). There is, to me, a critical age for learning these...
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Fitness Friday - Fitness News You Can Use
Welcome to another edition of Fitness Friday. This week in fitness news you can use, we begin with the EXOS 7-Minute workout that they created for the New York Times, installment 60 of Eric Cressey's...
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Movember To Support Men's Mental Health (in addition to prostate and...
Okay, first an admission, I wrongly believed that Movember was beard growing, not just mustaches. But that is because I confused it with another men's health meme, part of the same Movember...
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How to Build a Dick (The Social Construction of Genitalia)
From The New Inquiry, Vishnu Strangeways takes a social constructionist view of how we understand and co-create the idea of gentalia. Even at the level of biology, where XX and XY are most common...
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The Masculinity Myth: Here's What Women Really Want
A lot of women went nuts over this mugshot - and he's an effing criminal for crying out loud.I find these "studies" interesting - what a woman finds attractive looking at pictures has little (if...
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MIT and CalArts are the Latest Colleges to Expose the Rape Crisis
Apparently, it's not only jocks and frat boys who contribute to America's rape culture - geeks and nerds do, too. This sad article is from Jezebel.One addendum to this story, and others like it, needs...
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Gender-Neutral Pronouns: When ‘They’ Doesn’t Identify as Either Male or Female
Interestingly, this is from the Washington Post. I didn't even know this column existed.Gender-neutral pronouns: When ‘they’ doesn’t identify as either male or femaleBy Steven Petrow, Columnist,...
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Fitness Friday - Fitness News You Can Use (Sunday Edition)
Due to a browser crash (apparently Firefox is unstable with 100+ tabs open), this week's Fitness Friday is a couple of days late, but the posts are still fresh.Lots of good stuff this week, including...
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All Good Things . . .
I have been doing this blog for more than six years, mostly every day. I have loved the reading and sharing that goes into a blog, as well as the opportunity to preach my beliefs about masculinity and...
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Diane Abbott - The Crisis of Masculinity
From the Institute of Arts and Letters:With rapid economic and social change leaving Britain’s men behind, Labour politician Diane Abbott imagines brave solutions to an impending social disaster.The...
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University of Virgina Suspends ALL Fraternities Following Rolling Stone Article
On November 19th, Rolling Stone published a deeply researched article, called A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA, that related the horrific - and not uncommon -...
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Why You Might Want to Refuse the PSA Test for Prostate Cancer Screening
If you are a man of a certain age (say, over 40-45), you have likely had at least one prostate screen in your regular exams (and if you haven't, DO IT NOW). The old school test is the digital rectal...
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To Be a Man: A Guide to True Masculine Power - Robert Augustus Masters
To Be a Man: A Guide to True Masculine Power - Amazon, $18.60This post is to welcome the important new book, To Be a Man, by integral psychologist (an actual practicing psychologist, not of the Ken...
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Buddhism 101 with Rick Hanson, PhD: The Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold...
Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain (2009), Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time (2011), Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and...
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Tami Simon Interviews Robert Augustus Masters: True Masculine Power
From Tami Simon's interview series, Insights at the Edge, this is an excellent interview with integral psychologist Robert Augustus Masters about his new book, To Be a Man: A Guide to True Masculine...
View ArticleKali Holloway - Identifying Dudes: From Bros to Douchebags and Beyond
From Alternet, Kali Holloway sardonically breaks down the Dude branch of the male species. Yes, these are cliche categories with somewhat offensive labels, but there is some truth to all of her...
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The Average Penis Size, According to Science
Men worry an awful lot about the size and/or shape of their penises. Size is (wrongly) associated with virility and masculinity. Most men worry needlessly about this issue. So here is science coming to...
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Bruce Jenner, Aydian Dowling, and America's Transgender Awakening
There are two big stories involving transgender people in the news this week. The first one is Bruce Jenner's television interview with Diane Sawyer in which he comes out as a woman. Unless you have...
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