Ben Sommer, conceived through alternative insemination, is a young man now and tells the story of deciding to meet his donor.
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?

Save Our Sons’ Emotional Intelligence: What Dads Can Do Now
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.
Eli Kaplan thinks Ron Artest should be banned permanently from the NBA and perhaps switch over to the WWE.

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.
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?
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.

Anthropologist Emilia Perujo discovered that infertile men are hard to hear, even if your thesis is about listening to them.







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

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.
Until we regulate rape statistics, Julie Gillis writes, sexual violence will never be accounted for what it really is: diverse.
Peter Houlihan breaks down the defining assumptions of rape culture, its gendered state, and asks that blame not be placed on all men.
When Rick Belden was in need of a masculine figure, Iron Man helped him cope with the difficulties of life.
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In response to the recent news that my wife’s health condition had worsened, a coworker kindly offered to babysit. “You must have mistaken me for someone else in the office,” I replied, “We don’t have kids.” Being a considerate person, I expected her to respond to my email as others had before–with apologies, saying she meant no offense. But the next part of her message took me by surprise. She said something to the effect that I seemed grounded and settled, and that this is a quality she often admires in dads.
Megan Rosker spoke with Dr. Michael Thompson, a psychologist, school consultant, and author. Dr. Thompson is best known by his New York Times best-seller Raising Cain. He is also author of It’s A Boy! and Homesick and Happy, as well as five other books.
On our first date three years ago, my husband Geof told me where he went to college, what he did for a living, that he was involved in climate activism, that he was allergic to wheat, and that his younger brother had committed suicide almost 30 years ago. As we got to know each other better, suicide as a defining event in his life took greater shape through many more conversations that each chipped away small pieces of the hugeness of what could never be fully be explained.
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