Teens and Social Media: One Post Can Last a Lifetime

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Jeff Bogle argues that teaching a kid how to use social media and its consequences is the responsibility of parents

Why Is This Tumblr Taking Off?: Reasons My Son is Crying (Photos)

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Reason #304: Grandma wouldn’t let him spill his ice water all over her and the table.

Will You Take the #2Dto3D Challenge?

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Make “social” social again by making your 2D online relationships 3D!

Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things

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Simple photographs and a curious sense of rightness.

10 Things I Want to Say To a Black Woman – Video by Joshua Bennett

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A poem by performance poet Joshua Bennett, dedicated to Black women.

First, Let’s Kill All the Blue Screens

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It could be me on my annual New Year’s rant against the electronic world getting all 19th century on your ass. But I don’t think so.

What if the ‘Nice Guys of OK Cupid’ is Harming Innocent People?

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Joanna Schroeder has known a lot of Nice Guys™ and understands the frustration and fear women feel as a result, but believes the bullying and humiliation happening on Nice Guys of OK Cupid is out of line.

I Lost a Job for Calling Out the Company’s Rape Apology

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Dan Soloman critiqued CultureMap’s victim-shaming of an underaged girl, and lost his job as a result.

Why I Don’t Hate on Justin Bieber

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Why do we harshly judge a teenage boy for not being man enough?

This Is Why You Fail at Dating

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Doctor NerdLove explains how confirmation bias, fear and negativity are ruining your dating life.

On The Definition of Oppression

I doubt there is any arguments in the social justice community that get quite as heated as the question of whether Group X is oppressed. Things That Group X Can Be: poly people, kinky people, men, sex workers, people on the asexual or aromantic spectrum, vegans/vegetarians, animals, atheists, otherkin, multiples, et cetera, et cetera, et [...]

Look At My Pocket Square! Surviving the Scary World of Men’s Style Blogs

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When the menswear blogosphere sucks this much, what’s a guy to do?

A Farewell

Dear Tumblr, We’re leaving you. We’re going to brighter, bigger pastures, that have better interfaces, commenting systems that make any goddamn sense, and fewer .gif walls. We’re leaving you. For wordpress. Seriously, though. To our shock, delight, and moderate trepidation, Gen!Der!Fight! has been picked up by the Good Men Project, so the whole blog is [...]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt On Journalistic Integrity and Honoring Loved Ones

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Massively-talented actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt made an appeal today about the way his brother’s death was portrayed in the media that caused Joanna Schroeder to think about what really matters in storytelling.

Magic Mike: On the Objectification of Men

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Joanna Schroeder wonders what a film that seems to be only about hot gyrating guys says about society and how it will affect masculinity in the long run.

Feminist Ryan Gosling Becoming a Book

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What does our culture’s obsession with Ryan Gosling say about how we view men as a whole?