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Michael Kimmel - How Can We Help Women? By Helping Men
It was nice to see this article from Michael Kimmel in the Huffington Post. This is the fundamental idea that feminism is missing in its often radical views of men and masculinity.How Can We Help...
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Richard Sherman Responds to Being Called a “Thug” - The Man Behind the "Rant"
I did not and do not believe Richard Sherman is a thug. He is a Stanford graduate, a young man who had straight A's in high school while insisting on taking advance placement classes, and after coming...
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Is Masculinity in Crisis? Singer Billy Bragg and Director Topher Campbell...
From The Independent, this is an interesting discussion between two guys (who happen to be somewhat famous) about what is means to be a man today. They look at the supposed crisis in masculinity, how...
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Christopher Bergland - Can Meditation Make Us More Compassionate?
From Christopher Bergland's The Athlete's Way blog at Psychology Today, this is a nice post on how meditation can help us become more compassionate. If we all could be even slightly more compassionate...
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Cardio Is Not Enough, Men Need Resistance Training, Too
This comes from a site called WODMasters, which I assume is a CrossFit site (especially with the CrossFit reference at the end of the article). Be that as it may, this research review is...
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Men Enjoy Shopping, but Many Don't Like Strip Clubs - Who Knew?
Esquire asked 1,032 men a series of questions about topics related to masculinity - everything from going to strip clubs to watching sports on tv to the number of close friends they have. The answers...
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An 8-Step Path to Reducing Suffering
"Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practicing mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life. Mindfulness is a way of training yourself to become aware of things as they...
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Ben Bruno - Finding Your Big 3 Lifts
In the world of weight training, powerlifting has three big lifts that are the foundation of all competitions - squat, deadlift, and bench press. Not everyone, however, is biomechanically suited to all...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman - Aged 46, Overdose - RIP
Sad . . . another talented and apparently tormented person succumbs to addiction and perishes with the needle still in his arm. The picture above is Hoffman and his son at a Knicks basketball...
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JJ Vincent - Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Family, Brotherhood, and...
From the Good Men Project, this is a "review" (more like a preview) of a book due out later this year,Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family & Themselves (pre-order now from...
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Scott Sonnon - The Boy I Was, The Man it Makes Me
This article is from Scott Sonnon on the Good Men Project - it's an interesting discussion of how the way we are treated by others is shaped by how others see us, whether or not that is valid.As a...
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There’s No Crisis in Masculinity, Only a Narrow Definition of Men
From The Conversation, this is another useful refutation of the purported crisis of masculinity. This rebuttal gets it right - the only crisis is in how limited the cultural definition of...
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People Who Know Their 'Heart Age' Make Greater Improvements to Their Heart...
Heart disease is an issue in my family - my father died from it, as did his father, and my maternal grandfather, as well. Maybe it makes more sense now why I am a personal trainer?So I am 46 years...
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Rick Hanson - A Caring, Joyful Heart
This quick and easy practice to cultivate a caring, joyful heart (lovingkindness) comes from Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (2009),...
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Report: Rising Number Of Weak, Emasculated Men Working As Stay-At-Home Dads...
As is usually the case, The Onion says things many people think but would seldom say out loud, and sadly, this is one of those things.Report: Rising Number Of Weak, Emasculated Men Working As...
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How the NFL's Plan for Its 1st Openly Gay Player Fell Apart - And How...
Two stories from the Bleacher Report - the first details the NFL's plan to announce it's first gay player fell through, and how the very recent announcement by Missouri Defensive End Michael Sam that...
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Robert King - 6 Ball-Busting Finishers (T-Nation)
Finishers are a new component of weight training, an after-the-strength-portion of the workout calorie burner and metabolism booster. I don't know if these are the "magic bullet" that some people (who...
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Eggs Don’t Cause Heart Attacks — Sugar Does by Mark Hyman, MD
Mark Hyman, MD, is the author of The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast (2014), The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy...
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5 Sketchy Facts You Didn't Know About Valentine's Day . . . Because, You...
Via Cracked, where I often learn stuff I did not know, and then wish I had left well enough alone.5 Sketchy Facts You Didn't Know About Valentine's DayBy Brendan McGinley | February 13, 2014Good news!...
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Erika L. Sánchez - The Truth About "Macho" Men (via Alternet)
This article from Alternet is an interesting discussion of research on machismo. A pretty standard definition of machismo, according to Celia Falicov, PhD, might be:“the better man is the one who can...
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