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Adolescent Humiliation

April 11, 2013 By Andy Bodle Leave a Comment

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Andy Bodle fights and flees the pecking order.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Suicide, The Good Life, Womanology Tagged With: 1980s, Alpha males, ancestral bias, boys fight, boys will be boys, British school boys, bullying, dating, fifth form, fight or flight, male adolescence, male aggression, male ambition, Male Sex Drive, partying, pecking order, Phil Collins, school days, school life, sexual attraction, social hierarchies, suicide attempt, teen angst, teens drinking, testosterone

Big Man on Campus

April 10, 2013 By Leanne Stewart 6 Comments

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A fragile boy with learning disabilities transitions from home school to college.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Teenage Kicks, The Good Life Tagged With: active bystanders, adolescent sexuality, adulthood, anti-bullying, being a man, BMOC, boys will be boys, bromance, chronic health issues, chronic pain, college life, college students with learning disabilities, fag bashing, fighting back, gay allies, growing up, home school to college, home schooled college students, homophobia, homophobic violence on campus, manhood, medical crisis, medically fragile boys, nurturing men, protective masculinity, sexual identity, shy boys, teenage boys, teenagers

Moving Into the Red: Boys and Education

October 20, 2012 By Jennifer L. W. Fink 38 Comments

Jennifer Fink believes our boys are trying to tell us something about the way they’re being educated… and it’s time to listen.

Filed Under: Education, Featured Content Tagged With: boys and education, boys and reading, boys and school, boys will be boys, educating boys, gender gap in education, Jennifer L W Fink, Raising Boys, Snap Circuits, Titanic

Chris Brown, Woody Allen and Other ‘Bad’ Men

February 23, 2012 By Joanna Schroeder 73 Comments

Joanna Schroeder wonders what we’re saying about masculinity when we talk about Chris Brown and domestic abuse.

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French President Signs Marriage Equality Legislation Into Law

Same-sex marriage and adoptions are now legal in France.

50 Years Ago Today: ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

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An AIDS activist, a Christian missionary, a wilderness first responder, and a revolutionary rock star… Premium Members talk to four men who’ve made it their lives’ work to help other people, and how any of us can be prepared to take action in a crisis.

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A Hug for a Haircut

Every Wednesday in Hartford’s Bushnell Park, a barber sets up shop to give free haircuts to anyone who wants one—the homeless to longtime clients all pay the same fee: one hug.