beauty standards — The Good Men Project

Race, Othering, and GQ’s Opinions On Hot Women

January 18, 2013 By Noah Brand 5 Comments

GQ’s latest excuse to publish photos of pretty women betrays a deeper underlying problem.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: beauty standards, Black movies, ethnicity, everyday racism, GQ, hot women, lists, othering, porn, Racism, unexamined assumptions, Zhang Ziyi

My Gain, Your Loss: Hair Removal, Feminism, and Interdependence

December 28, 2012 By Vironika Tugaleva 41 Comments

An ideology that lacks compassion for half of humanity will not secure freedom for anyone.

Filed Under: Body Image, Featured Content, Men and Feminism, The Good Life Tagged With: beauty standards, body image, egalitarian marriage, Families, feminists, Gender equality, gender roles, hair removal, independence, interdependence, Julia Roberts, maturity, men and women, patriarchy, relationships, shaving, Stephen Covey, war of the sexes, women's bodies

The “Men are Dogs” Double Bind

June 12, 2012 By Danny 54 Comments

Danny explores the idea that men are somehow both expected to behave like mindless sex-obsessed animals, and yet are also held responsible for the incredibly high standards of beauty and grooming women are held to.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: beauty standards, body image, Danny, Good Feed Blog, misandry, misogyny, myths about men, sex, sexism, women's body image

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Illinois Passes Bill for Comprehensive Sex-Ed in Public Schools

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

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.

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.

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.