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Thunderstruck: Part 3

May 1, 2013 By Jason Kapcala 1 Comment

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Can a man still fall in love with a car? Jason Kapcala writes of growing up in the ’90s: “My generation was probably one of the last to view mobility as a literal concept … that mobility is something I crave now more than ever.”

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men and Machines, The Good Life Tagged With: adventure, breaking loose, brothers, buying a car, cars, Chicago, confidence, Dodge Challenger, Dodge Magnum, driving, family road trip, fear of the unknown, growing up in the 1990s, man loves car, physical world, Real World, road trip, Stress

First Responders: 5/11

April 18, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

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How have you prepared to respond in an emergency?

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How Do Men See Themselves?

April 18, 2013 By Shawn Peters 24 Comments

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Dove asks women a question that men should be asking, too.

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OPEN THREAD: Do Men Get Enough Compliments?

April 11, 2013 By the Editors 10 Comments

Do men get taken for granted when it comes to receiving compliments?

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: compliments, confidence, do men get enough compliments?, open thread, self-esteem

I Can Finally Say I Am Proud to Be a Man

April 9, 2013 By Laurence Best 13 Comments

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A lifetime of homophobia had beaten down Larry Best, but with the help of a friend, he has regained pride in his manhood.

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Embracing Destruction

April 5, 2013 By Kevin Macku 7 Comments

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How do we learn to take decisive action?

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When a Man’s Responsibility Has Gone, What Is There Left for Him?

March 28, 2013 By Graham Phoenix 13 Comments

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Men keep going out of a sense of duty. What happens when that’s no longer enough?

Filed Under: Disposability of Men, Male Toughness Tagged With: addiction, alcoholism, anxiety, confidence, credit card debt, debt, Divorce, Entrepreneurship, family life, family men, feelings of inadequacy, gender roles, grief, independence, loss, machismo, male disposability, male toughness, manhood, masculinity, men and marriage, men and responsibility, pressure, rebuilding your life, remarriage, retirement, separation, success, traditional gender roles, traditional marriage, widowers

Are You Raising a Narcissist?

March 22, 2013 By Jason Bruce 8 Comments

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The cultural and technological trends that are making us even more self-absorbed.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Ethics & Values, The Good Life Tagged With: American Freshman Survey, American values, children media exposure, church, confidence, Dr. Keith Ablow, empathy, face to face interactions, facebook, Faith, fathers and daughters, Fox News, Greed, humility, modeling empathy, narcissism, narcissists, overconfidence, overconfident underachievers, Parenthood, parenting, praising beauty, psychology, self-esteem, selfish children, success, teaching humility, Video Games, volunteering

Confessions of a Call Girl Client

March 21, 2013 By Andy Bodle 43 Comments

After Andy Bodle spent thousands of dollars on escorts he met online, he had one more powerful desire left unfulfilled

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, The Good Life, Womanology Tagged With: Being a John, clients of prostitutes, clients of sex workers, confidence, courtship rituals, criminology, dating, ego, escort agencies, escort services, escorts, ethics, evolutionary psychology, free market, H. G. Loebner, Hollywood prostitution, insecure men, Johns, lesbian fantasies, London scene, marriage, men who pay for sex, Monica Prasad, online escort agencies, paying for companionship, Pretty Woman, Pretty Woman syndrome, prostitution, quarter-life crisis, red light district, research prostitution, Roger Matthews, sex, sex industry, sex work reality, sexual fantasies, single men, South Bank University London, stand up comedians, The Morality of Market Exchange, virtual red light district

“Admonishing someone with depression is like telling a paraplegic person ‘I don’t see the problem, just get up and walk!’”

March 14, 2013 By the Editors 4 Comments

Have you ever been depressed? Did you have people telling you just to get over it? Or to just “think positively” and “believe in yourself”, expecting it to go away like magic? How did you respond?