A sign that a boy is becoming a man is commemorated by his family.
Michael Caesar > Uncle Ruckus: The Boondoggle About The Boondocks
February 6, 2013 By 5 Comments
Once upon a time, a snarky little comic strip rose from relative obscurity to become fodder for Sunday morning political pundits and shaking heads along Washington DC’s beltway.
Open Thread: What Youthful Cruelty Do You Regret?
February 1, 2013 By 3 Comments
You were a jerk sometimes when you were a kid. Which incidents still eat at you?
Shame Is Why We Fight
January 6, 2013 By 29 Comments
When a man can’t soothe his woman’s anxieties, he has failed to protect her. And in our culture of masculinity, failed men are expendable.
The Key to Exercise: Shamelessness
January 1, 2013 By 4 Comments
Free yourself from shame over your body or your taste in music. Noah Brand shares his exercise playlist.
The Naked Woman at the Bottom of the Milk Carton
August 29, 2012 By 1 Comment
8 year-old John Tinseth had seen pictures of a woman’s breasts before, but this was his first view further south, and he wasn’t sure what he saw was all that great.
The 40-Year-Old Teenager
April 7, 2012 By 4 Comments
Joel Schwartzberg offers this advice to newly-divorced men: Don’t even think
about going “home.”
Bird Sh-t, Locker Nazis, and Epic Sweating
May 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A day like this calls for a hazmat crew.
Ode to a Soccer Mom
February 25, 2011 By 35 Comments
Ron Mattocks crafts a heartfelt missive to a clueless mom from a swanky neighborhood. He may or may not have been entirely sarcastic.
How to Beat Bullying
February 18, 2011 By 8 Comments
I remember getting repeatedly punched, and another friend getting his clothes taken from him. And no one did anything.
How My Son Made Me a Criminal
January 12, 2011 By 29 Comments
“Son,” the Customs Officer said, “tell me who this man is that you’re traveling with.”
A Touchy Subject
December 23, 2010 By 13 Comments
You may have an unhealthily Puritanical aversion to your body’s various parts and functions, but children don’t. Children are free and open with their bodies and have no time for your squeamishness.
Oh, My Nuts!!
November 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
With his big, bucktoothed smile, he grabbed his crotch and yelled out in hysterics, “My nuts!! Oh, my nuts!!”
When Nature Calls
November 15, 2010 By 2 Comments
That’s when I noticed what the other moms were gawking at—all three of my sons were peeing out in the open for all creation to see.
Dads Just Need to Step Up
November 15, 2010 By 8 Comments
My entire edifice of being a man, being in control, being a good dad, being competent and skilled as a father just crumbled.
Disinfecting Dad
November 15, 2010 By 5 Comments
I bought a can of Lysol today. In retrospect, I should have come home with a case of it. Welcome to my life the last few days.
“Straight men learned from gay men that physically affectionate, emotionally intimate friendships are not unmanly.”
These are comments by David May and Rick on the post “For The Love Of God, Please Stop Saying ‘Bromance’”.