On Pop Culture — The Good Men Project

I Am a Female Nerd. Apparently.

Marianne Cassidy thinks being a female nerd is trendy. Except when that’s all guys see in her.

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All TV Is Reality TV

October 19, 2011 By Tom Miller 1 Comment

Tom Miller wonders why news has sought to be more entertaining, while entertainment has tried to become more real.

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Filed Under: A&E, Featured Content, On Pop Culture Tagged With: fiction, Jack Kerouac, JD Salinger, Kim Kardashian, pop culture, Reality TV

Pop Culture Is Killing Us

October 17, 2011 By Tom Matlack 42 Comments

Tom Matlack regrets the influence of America’s pernicious popular culture.

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Filed Under: Featured Content, Good Is Good, On Pop Culture Tagged With: Andy Warhol, BBC, Fox News, Huffington post, Jon Stewart, journalism, MSNBC, pop culture, Tom Matlack

“I Will Marry a Prince” — On Pop Culture and Fairy Tales

October 17, 2011 By Lisa Hickey 6 Comments

Lisa Hickey wants to re-define pop culture into something more personal.

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Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, On Pop Culture Tagged With: Andy Warhol, Ashton Kutchner, demi moore, Jackie Summers, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Middleton, Kurt Vonnegut, Lisa Hicey, pop culture, Prince William, Steve Locke, The Good Men Project

From ‘Father Knows Best’ to Father Knows Nothing

October 17, 2011 By Andrew Smiler 34 Comments

Andrew Smiler pines for the return of competent father figures in popular culture.

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Filed Under: A&E, Featured Content, On Pop Culture Tagged With: Family Guy, fatherhood, fathers, feminism, Homer Simpson, Media, pop culture

On Standing Where He Must Have Stood

October 17, 2011 By Steve Locke 4 Comments

Steve Locke, meet van Gogh.

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Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Editors' Picks, Featured Content, On Pop Culture Tagged With: beaux-arts building, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Impressionist, painting, Self Portrait with Straw Hat, Steve Locke, van gogh, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

The Ghost of Edward Hopper Tries Prozac

October 17, 2011 By Lisa Hickey 1 Comment

Two pop cultural icons—Edward Hopper and Prozac—together in one poem.

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Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content, On Pop Culture, Poetry Tagged With: 1932, art, death, depression, Edward Hopper, men, painting, poem, pop culture, Prozac

Becoming Dr. Land

October 17, 2011 By Stephen Sheffield Leave a Comment

Stephen Sheffield recreates the famous photo of the founder of Polaroid.

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Filed Under: A&E, On Pop Culture Tagged With: Edwin H. Land, photography, polaroid, pop culture, Stephen Sheffiled

Good Feed Blog

Illinois Passes Bill for Comprehensive Sex-Ed in Public Schools

“In fantasy land, we teach our kids abstinence—and they listen.”

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David R. Dow: Lessons From Death Row Inmates (TEDTalk VIDEO)

David R. Dow is an attorney in Texas who has defended over 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years.

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HuffPost Live: Decapitating Extremism (VIDEO)

Mike Sacks discusses the attack in Woolwich, London, and extremism with a panel of experts on Islam and the Quran.

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Our Mission: The Vasectomy Files 8

The Vasectomy Project is encouraging men to join forces and take responsibly for family planning. This is an opportunity to bring people together to talk about our collective responsibility while offering men a concrete way to contribute towards a solution by having a vasectomy.

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