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Why Our Boys Need The Good Men Project And More

We need to love our boys so they learn the power of their own love as husbands, fathers and men.

When you lose your identity, it’s called insanity. And for some men, manhood is their identity.

“It’s refreshing to see these guys take the public perception of parents into their own hands.”

The Unabashed Tourist Brings Her Lover to the French Quarter

Tom Gualtieri insists that DOMA and Prop 8 are bias laws without basis in the U.S. Constitution.

Poet Robert Peake asks us to look at war, nihilism and love to start the healing.

Rape culture is the trivialization of rape, and it permeates our society to an alarming extent.

By all means, let’s improve mental health services in the US. Please. But if you want to talk about how to prevent rampage violence, s.e. smith is afraid you’re going to need to move on to other subjects.

Shooting after shooting, we’re confronted by the question of what it means to be a man. We refuse to answer—and we all suffer for it.

Sam Sattin wonders, how do we tell the difference between the revolutionary and the trivial?

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Biting Bad Apples: The Truth About the “Ex-Gay” Movement

The conversion therapy business may be more about making money than setting you straight.

“But what is a bias towards fairness?” Maggie looked on beleaguered.

“Bias toward fairness means that if the entire Congressional Republican Caucus were to walk into the House and propose a resolution stating that the Earth was flat, the Times would lead with, ‘Democrats and Republicans Can’t Agree on Shape of Earth.’”

This is the message of HBO’s Newsroom created by Aaron Sorkin. Mackenzie and Will explained that there are not always two sides to every story, sometimes there are five sides or five hundred sides, and to position a one-two argument sometimes leaves the Crazy with way too much legitimacy.

Oh how art imitates reality.

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Fear of Heights & Changes

Each city offers visitors a custom solution for managing high anxiety.

My birthday gift coupon from Tiffany said, “My brother-in-law Mark is yours for 24 hours.”

Ken Goldstein and his father talk about all the changes of the past 75 years to get at the one that mattered most.

What I felt for her wasn’t love. It was more an addiction.

“What did it mean to be a person in this world?” 3-year-old Walter asks himself somewhere in his subconscious in this weekend’s brilliant story by Sarah Tourjee. Isn’t that the question we’re all asking?”

On their last trip to a neighborhood park, Jerry Mahoney finally gives in and lets his twin toddlers run free.

MJ Kelly learned that it’s easy to devalue emotional sensitivity, until you see it in your child’s eyes.

Liam Day explains the political controversy behind Vikings punter Chris Kluwe’s viral rant, and urges gay athletes to break the stereotype that pits homosexuality against masculinity.

The first time Dan Griffin asks a woman out in recovery, the intensity of the experience is overwhelming.

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A Taste Of THE GOOD FEED ...

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Through a Father’s Eyes: Artist Captures His Children’s Lives From Birth To Adolescence in 3 Minutes

Frans Hofmeester shot footage of his daughter every week of her life, from infancy to 12 years old. It is breathtaking to behold the way a tiny little baby changes to an adolescent right in front of her father’s eyes.

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The Naked Truth: HBO’s “Girls” Is A Winner

Jamie Reidy discusses HBO’s new raunchy comedy.

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No More Chances For World Peace: Ron Artest Should Be Out

Eli Kaplan thinks Ron Artest should be banned permanently from the NBA and perhaps switch over to the WWE.

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Iowa Newspaper Devotes Entire Front Page to Combatting Bullying

This is an unprecedented unified effort by a newspaper in the effort to end bullying. Editor Mitch Pugh said that they have never devoted an entire front page to an editorial before, but believes that the issue of bullying is bigger than just one person.

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Drink Up: House of Beer Cans

Jamie Reidy comments on a New Mexico house built with beer cans.

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Should Ron Artest (aka Metta World Peace) Be Suspended For Elbowing Harden?

Oliver Lee Bateman wants to know what everybody else thinks: Was Metta/Ron Artest just carried away with enthusiasm? Or did he assault James Harden?

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From Boys to Good Men – Pornography, Fraternities and Feminism

Josh Bowman wonders if on-campus mentor programs can combat a culture of hyper-sexualized aggressive masculinity, and counter some of the lessons learned from watching porn at young age.

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A Taste Of Monday and Tuesday...

  1. Don’t Settle For Less With Your Child’s Education
    When my daughter turned three years old, we decided it was time to send her to school several days a week. We wanted to gradually introdu…
  2. Interview with a Male Infertility Rock Star
    A veteran of many treatments, Denny Ceizyk answers some infertility questions that many men keep to themselves. 4 fertility doctors, 11 e…
  3. Home Sweet In-Laws
    Professional truck driver Todd McCann isn’t ashamed to admit he lives with his wife’s parents. Originally appeared at About Trucking Jobs…
  4. The Knight/Beast Dichotomy
    Just as women are trapped by the stereotypes of the virgin/whore dichotomy, so do good guy/bad guy stereotypes trap men. Ozy Frantz break…
  5. 1 in 54 Boys Diagnosed With Autism
    Autism rates have risen to epidemic rates of 1:88, and 1:54 for boys. Joanna Schroeder investigates what we can do to help alleviate the …
  6. The Marginalization of an Infertile Man
    When Marcus Williams was ready to face his infertility, he had a hard time finding any fertility doctors willing to face it with him. Tha…
  7. Think We Should Keep IVF Legal?
    Men need fertility treatments just as much as women, writes Lee Rubin Collins, so “personhood” amendments are about their rights, too. It…
  8. Charles Barkley Misses The Point
    Charles Barkley in a dress for Weight Watchers may be garnering a lot of attention, but Danny feels it misses the mark on helping men wit…

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What Is This Good Men Project Thing ???

100 Acts of Male Goodness

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#11: Pal Dog

“Then one day Pal disappeared.”

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Education and Boys

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Evaluating Our Children

Carl Bosch finds himself caught between his students and their academic futures.

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Our Sexual Vocabulary

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Can We Really (Really?) Talk About Sex?

In response to a Julie Gillis’s piece, Valter Viglietti wonders if it’s really possible to talk openly and freely to a possible partner about maybe having sex.

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Men Are Funny

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My Mutant Superpower: Epiphany Man

If Steven Axelrod could have one superpower, he wouldn’t fly, shoot lasers from his eyes, or talk to animals. He’d help you realize you’re an asshole.

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On Rape and Sexual Violence

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Heresy, Rape Statistics, and Getting Away from the Poles

Until we regulate rape statistics, Julie Gillis writes, sexual violence will never be accounted for what it really is: diverse.

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Prison

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Blood Spattered

An excerpt from The Good Men Project book: Julio Medina’s story.

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Ethics & Values

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Do Books Matter Less?

Ken Goldstein wonders if books are still essential.

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Bitter Pills: Men and Women in Rape Culture

Peter Houlihan breaks down the defining assumptions of rape culture, its gendered state, and asks that blame not be placed on all men.

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Advice & Confessions

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My Life With Iron Man

When Rick Belden was in need of a masculine figure, Iron Man helped him cope with the difficulties of life.

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He-Man or Pee-Wee?

Cartoon men also shape our images of ourselves as real, live men.

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And Much, Much MORE»>

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The Spirituality of #Occupy

Jack Varnell looks at the #Occupy movement through the lens of “everything has spiritual consequences”.

Let me begin by saying I have become quite adept at both identifying issues and pointing the fingers. A recovery mentor was quite fond of saying to me, “yes, that’s the problem, but what are you going to DO about it?” I’m a bit angry and embittered at the way the world has treated me, especially post-epiphany and growth. Since beginning my work to become a “good” man, I take responsibility for my part in things, make amends through the way I live and I give back. But I also have the right to be pissed. I have tools to deal with it that I choose to pick up or not, and invariably this toolkit includes the proverbial “village” it takes to raise this man-child. Whether we like it or not a natural human instinct, ingrained in us, is a desire for and need for society. For community.

Numbers, and semantics are coming from everywhere on all sides regarding the #occupy movement, but I believe at its core what we are facing is not economics, or politics. It is moral issues in play here. That makes it personal…for all. When the Mayor of Boston is making grand and uneducated statements like “I will not have civil disobedience in Boston”, and the Sean Hannity’s of the world with their exorbitant salaries are calling the movement “Un-American”, it only lends credence to the idea that the protesters have a valid point. And a right to be pissed.

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100 Thousand Poets for Change- TOMORROW 09-24-2011

Join The Good Men Project and Michael Rothenberg on September 24, 2011 for a global event: 100 Thousand Poets for Change.

Write and Radio and The Good Men Project are joining 100 Thousand Poets for Change for a global event on September 24, 2011. There are 700 scheduled events in 450 cities and 95 countries so far. Join other poets, Good Men, and Good Women around the USA and across the planet, on September 24th, in a demonstration/celebration of poetry and art to promote serious social, environmental, and political change.

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Dear John: He’s a Dear, Sweet Man, but Terrible in Bed

Should he be hooking up with women at work? How do I tell my ex-lover that I am no longer interested in sex with him? Advice on this and more from Dear John.

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I Talk About Race Because I Don’t Know How Not To

If we don’t talk about race, Sarah Jackson argues, we can’t get to any place progressive.


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