Town & Country magazine does their part perpetuating an outdated, harmful, sexist trope.
“The End of Men” on Al-Jazeera Stream
October 11, 2012 By 9 Comments
The Good Men Project’s own Noah Brand weighs in against Hanna Rosin’s notion of “The End of Men”
I Thought I’d Try The Swim Part: The Man Camps of North Dakota
April 7, 2012 By 9 Comments
Noah wrote about the “man camps” of North Dakota for the Good Men Project, but I decided I would talk about it as well, because it’s interesting. The quote that struck me the most within the NYT article was the following, from an oil fields worker: Even after the recruiter told him the job was [...]
I’ll Show Them All
February 10, 2012 By 31 Comments
In fiction, one often runs across villains who want to literally end the world. Destroy all humanity, wipe everything out, bam. No more people, no more civilization. As a boy, I didn’t really understand this impulse; I mean, what’s to be gained by ending the world? As an adult, I come across articles like this [...]
Maybe We Should Call It Blatantsexism-mas
December 27, 2011 By 43 Comments
Nice Guys Part Four: Ozy Forgets Post Titles And Noah Can’t Count
December 27, 2011 By 289 Comments
Warning: this is really long. This is what happens when you have multiple 200+ comment threads that crystallize all kinds of awesome new ideas for me. The majority of Nice Guys™ (once again, used gender-inclusively) are suffering from a common delusion: that the dating world is even remotely logical. Unfortunately, this is not true. I’m [...]
The Lorax
November 9, 2011 By 20 Comments
The Success Industry
September 28, 2011 By 45 Comments
We can, at this point, take it as well-established that men are too often considered “success objects” by society, yes? I don’t need to once again explain how, just as women are judged by their perceived adherence to a largely arbitrary standard of sexual attractiveness, men are judged by their material and financial “success”? Good. [...]
Depression Part One: Unemployment, Men and Suicide
August 23, 2011 By 104 Comments
Trigger warning for discussion of suicide. Recently, I came across this very interesting study about suicide rates as they relate to unemployment. Since I basically read everything with my Masculism Goggles on now (seriously, I do, it’s terrible), I happened to notice a few interesting statistics. A 10% increase in the unemployment rate (for instance, from [...]
“It’s a woman’s job to make her man feel safe — a safe place that doesn’t expect him to do brave things just because he’s a man.”
This is a comment by Kat on the post “A Husband’s Job Is To Create Emotional Safety”.