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Men Who Hurl Themselves From Vans

February 4, 2011 By Dave Ford Leave a Comment

More true tales of men behaving oddly in (and around) moving vehicles.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E Tagged With: crime, Dave Ford, driving, honolulu, humor, kansas city, men, Police

Science Guys

January 4, 2011 By Andrew Ladd 11 Comments

The hunt for a theoretical particle reveals an alarming trend in science: the competition to be the next “great man”—at any cost.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Featured Content Tagged With: Andrew Ladd, Ian Sample, Massive: The Missing Particle, reading for all mankind, Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon

Editors’ Picks: The Top 10 Stories of 2010

December 31, 2010 By the Editors Leave a Comment

Looking for something to read? The GMPM editors share their favorite stories of the year.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Best of Good Men Project Magazine, Featured Content Tagged With: Aaron Gouveia, abortion, Andrew Sullivan, Charlotte Shane, Christian, Confronting Life, facebook, Faith, fatherhood, Fidelity, FTM, gay, Iceland, James Franco, Junot Diaz, Katie Baker, marriage, prostitution, Robert Pinsky, Sebastian Junger, social media, softball, Ted Cox, Todd Mauldin, Tom Forrister, Top 10, Twitter

The Top 10 ‘Good Men’ Movies

December 21, 2010 By Jordan Pedersen 21 Comments

These are movies about the men we want to be, the men we actually are, and the men we’re glad we aren’t.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Best of Good Men Project Magazine, Featured Content Tagged With: Ang Lee, Apatow, Brokeback Mountain, Capra, Coppola, Do the Right THing, Godfather, High Fidelity, It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart, John Avildsen, John Cusack, John Wayne, Knocked Up, Nick Hornby, Noah Baumbach, Nobody's Fool, Paul Newman, Robert Benton, Rocky, Seth Rogen, Spike Lee, Stallone, Stephen Frears, The 400 Blows, The Searchers, Truffaut

Why I’m Social-Media Promiscuous

November 29, 2010 By Lisa Hickey 27 Comments

Good Men Media CEO Lisa Hickey wants you—and Malcom Gladwell—to know: the revolution can be tweeted.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Best of Good Men Project Magazine, Editors' Picks, Social Media and Men Tagged With: Eric Proulx, facebook, LinkedIn, Lisa Hickey, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark St. Amant, social media, social networking, The Tipping Point, Tom Matlack, Twitter

On ‘Manthropology’

November 20, 2010 By Andrew Ladd 7 Comments

Andrew Ladd reviews Peter McAllister’s new book, “Manthropology: The Science of Why the Modern Male Is Not the Man He Used to Be.”

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Best of Good Men Project Magazine, Featured Content, Reviews Tagged With: Andrew Ladd, Anthropolohy, book review, Book Review: Manthropology, manthropology, men, neandethals, nfl, Peter McAllister

The Drugs Don’t Work: Christopher Shulgan’s ‘Superdad’

November 13, 2010 By Andrew Ladd 1 Comment

Shulgan’s memoir about his drug-addicted parenthood is a confrontation with destructive ideas of masculinity. But not all of it rings true.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Best of Good Men Project Magazine, Featured Content Tagged With: Andrew Ladd, Christopher Shulgan, reading for all mankind, Superdad

Top 10 Good Movies About Addiction

November 8, 2010 By Lu Fong 9 Comments

Addiction isn’t good, but these movies are.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Best of Good Men Project Magazine, Special Addiction Section, Special Sections Tagged With: A Scanner Darkly, addiction, Basketball Diaries, Drugstore Cowboy, kids, leonardo dicaprio, movies, Naked Lunch, Requiem for a Dream, Traffic, Trainspotting

My Dad, the UFO Expert

November 8, 2010 By Evan Jacobs 6 Comments

Fourth grade isn’t exactly a walk in the park, but for Evan Jacobs, having a dad who knew a lot about space aliens was the ticket to social acceptance. It’s been mostly downhill from there.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Best of Good Men Project Magazine, Featured Content Tagged With: Abduction, Dr. David Jacobs, Evan Jacobs, Families, school, sons, UFO

Are Women Funny?

July 6, 2010 By Andrew Ladd 14 Comments

Andrew Ladd argues that the fairer sex has a great sense of humor—and that we ought to start appreciating it.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Featured Content, Gender & Sexuality Tagged With: Betty White, Comedy, funny, Germaine Greer, men, Reba, Shakespeare, snl, The Smothers Brothers, Tina Fey, women

Sweet Music

June 16, 2010 By Dave Ford Leave a Comment

Resentment, fear, anger: these are locked in time; love knows no bounds. Love is jazz.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Father's Day, Featured Content Tagged With: dad, Dave Ford, dixieland, Ed Sullivan, Exile on Main Street, Father's Day, jazz, music, the beatles, The Rolling Stones

Drunk, With a Gun

June 6, 2010 By Dave Ford Leave a Comment

True tales: A drunk man shoots himself in the groin, a lazy man calls 911, and a robber man covers his face with toilet paper.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E Tagged With: drunk, dudes in the news, gun, ingenious, lazy, mens news, toilet paper

Galarraga’s Extra Perfecto

June 4, 2010 By Aaron Traister 5 Comments

Baseball fans don’t need Bud Selig to tell them what’s true.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Best of Good Men Project Magazine, Best of Sports, Editors' Picks, Sports Tagged With: apology, Armando Galarraga, Bud Selig, controversy, Good Men, Jim Joyce, perfect game

Men Behaving Oddly

June 1, 2010 By Dave Ford Leave a Comment

True tales of generous bank robbers and teenage boys who never change their shoes.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E Tagged With: bank robber, Dave Ford, Newsroom, Sarah Palin

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Robin Gibb Dies of Cancer

it’s with great sadness that we report the death of Robin Gibb, age 62, from complications of cancer.

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Are You More Likely to Get Shot in Mexico or Texas?

Americans fundamentally misunderstand what is going on in Mexico. And they should figure it out.

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Good Men Project wins Million Writers Award

The Good Men Project has won the Million Writers Award for best new online magazine, in recognition of our status as one of the best venues for short fiction to begin publishing fiction in the past year

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Ten Things I’ve Learned From Having ‘Queer’ Friends

I was taught that the word “queer” has been re-appropriated as a sort of catch-all for any sexuality that is not “heteronormative”. But since normal doesn’t really exist, then we’re all a bit queer!

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Screw You, Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover! Detachment Parenting

Jamie Reidy shares a hilarious essay on the opposite of “attachment parenting” by Sarah Maizes.

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The American Dream is Dead

Children from low-income families have only a 1 percent chance of reaching the top 5 percent of the income distribution.

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Privilege, the Video Game: Version 1.1

HeatherN parses apart a metaphor comparing real-life social privilege with difficulty settings in a video game.

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