The Drugging of the American Boy (Esquire) - ADHD and the End of Boys
From Esquire, this is an excellent article on the ways in which our society is using drugs to make little boys docile and more easily managed. The Drugging of the American Boy By the time they reach...
View ArticleAlice Dreger - The Social Construction of Sex (via Pacific Standard)
There are two basic camps in the study of sex and gender - social constructionists on one side, who believe that most or all of our conceptions of sex and gender are based in our shared definitions of...
View ArticleIncreasing Number of Men Pressured to Accept Realistic Standards of Female...
From The Onion, America's Finest News Source, satire is often more telling than reality. In this case, making fun of men having to deal with how women really look in advertisements. With 67% of the...
View ArticleFitness Friday - Fitness News and Information You Can Use
In this week's Fitness Friday, a primer on front squats from Eric Cressey, a collection of the best. exercises. period. from Christian Thibaudeau at T-Nation, and a new article on kettlebells from Bret...
View ArticleRelationship Problems? Unlock the Code of Men’s Feelings
This comes from Barbara Markway's blog at Psychology Today,Living the Questions. The points I agree with in Markway's list are the double-bind (we are told to express our feelings, especially by female...
View ArticleExpert Perspectives: Erin Rehel on Fatherhood, Masculinity and Paternity Leave
This post comes from the Fathers, Work, and Family blog, back in January of this year. The discussion with Erin Rehel sheds some light on fathers and the value of paternity leave.Expert Perspectives:...
View ArticleMen on the Edge of Panic: Boomer Esiason, Mike Francesa and Toxic Masculinity...
Tori and Daniel MurphyA little background may be necessary here for those who do not follow baseball (like me). Recently, Daniel Murphy of the New York Mets received a LOT of criticism for taking...
View ArticleConversation: What About the Men?
This "conversation" - What about the men? - comes from the conference The Shriver Report LIVE. Conversation: What About the Men?Conversation: What About the Men? from The Atlantic on FORA.tvSpoken...
View ArticleWhy Derrick Gordon Coming Out is Important, and a Story
Jason Collins was the first active NBA player to come out; Michael Sam was the first Division I NCAA football player to come out; and now Derrick Gordon is the first Division I NCAA men's basketball...
View ArticleFitness Friday - Fitness News and Information You Can Use
For this week's edition of Fitness Friday, I am clearing out some older links. We have an article on why steady state cardio sucks, by Rachel Cosgrove, one on burning fat with high intensity intervals...
View Article10 Percent of Gay Craigslist Ads Seek Men Who Don't Identify as Gay
Curious . . . human sexuality is an interesting and complex phenomenon. The ad above is a reverse on the study below. I know a younger gay man who hooks up with men through chat rooms, but a lot of the...
View ArticleWhy Men Have So Much Trouble Making Friends
For many men, the friends they make in high school or college are their friends for life, and they seem to struggle to add new men into the category friend. For even more men (straight men), once they...
View ArticleAlex Berg - Bisexual Culture Is No 'Fiction'
From Huffington Post, this article and podcast examines the basis of the recent New York Times Magazine article, The Scientific Quest to Prove Bisexuality Exists, by Benoit Denizet-Lewis. I used to...
View ArticleShawn Smith - Why Men Feel Outmatched During Arguments with Women
I don't like the idea that men should be trying to make women happy - that is a sure route to misery and resentment. But there is good stuff here about the different ways men and women communicate - an...
View ArticleKozo Hattori - 5 Habits of Highly Compassionate Men
Excellent article. I resonate with the opening remarks of the author - I was a very sensitive child and would cry when the gazelle got caught by the lion on Wild Kingdom. Other situations, usually...
View ArticleFitness Friday - Fitness News and Information You Can Use
For this week's Fitness Friday, we have an article on workout nutrition (before, during, and after), another opinion on Crossift, two articles from T-Nation - one on squatting, the other on shoulders -...
View ArticleDate and Acquaintance Rape - Presentation Version and Full Version
Here is the presentation (shorter version as presented and a longer version) I gave at the Tucson YWCA yesterday as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. These are hosted by SlideShare.I posted this...
View ArticleThis Is What Real Men Do
This is what real men do. Watch what happens in under 30 seconds. Best PSA ever? Apparently, this was made by University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication students. They have just won...
View ArticleWhite Male Privilege Squandered On Job At Best Buy
From The Onion, America's Finest News Source. Apparently, white male privilege is not all it's cracked up to be . . . .White Male Privilege Squandered On Job At Best BuyISSUE 50•16• Apr 21, 2014...
View ArticleOmnivore - A Manhood Problem (and a Rebuttal to Hanna Rosin)
Here is another feast of links form Bookforum's Omnivore blog - this time all of the links are related to men, masculinity, social gender theory, and other related topics - some interesting...
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