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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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Must-read from the Good Men Project for all those interested in Boys Issues

Save Our Sons’ Emotional Intelligence: What Dads Can Do Now

and the companion piece:
12 Joyful Ways to Power Up Your Son’s Emotional Intelligence
(both by Mark Greene and his wife Dr. Saliha Bava)
Boys are from Mars, Parents are from Another Solar System
by Jennifer Flescher
Growing Up Angry No More: Raising Emotionally Intelligent Boys
by Kristian Orozco
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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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An Oftentimes Different and Unheard Perspective... Infertility

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The Missing Voices of Men

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

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Meeting My Sperm Donor Dad

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

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Interview with a Male Infertility Rock Star

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A veteran of many treatments, Denny Ceizyk answers some infertility questions that many men keep to themselves.

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Flickers of Hope and Sorrow

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Robb Zimmerman speaks about the grief and confusion of two lost pregnancies.

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Think We Should Keep IVF Legal?

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Men need fertility treatments just as much as women, writes Lee Rubin Collins, so “personhood” amendments are about their rights, too.

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The Marginalization of an Infertile Man

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When Marcus Williams was ready to face his infertility, he had a hard time finding any fertility doctors willing to face it with him.

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The Happy Hour Miscarriage in Paradise

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How many times can you lose a child without even having one before things change?

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Dreams and Visions: On Being a Man After 3 Miscarriages in 20 Months

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Dave Sanfacon remains a father and a husband through the agonizing nightmare and another attempt at kids.

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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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Blog Feed -- Hungry ?

College Courses On Human Sexuality: Education or Titillation?

FEBRUARY 24, 2012 BY JOANNA SCHROEDER 2 COMMENTS
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Joanna Schroeder thinks education should include more talk about sexuality, but wonders if some of these courses take things a bit too far.

Beatles’ Ringtones = iTunes Gold

FEBRUARY 24, 2012 BY JAMIE REIDY 3 COMMENTS
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Jamie Reidy offers his own suggestion for a Beatles #1 hit ringtone.

Ten things I’ve learned about business from purchasing a 6 inch cheese sub from Itza Submarine

FEBRUARY 24, 2012 BY JOSH BOWMAN 1 COMMENT
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I like Marilyn Monroe. But not enough for a picture of her to be the only art on the walls

Facebook Depresses Me

FEBRUARY 23, 2012 BY TOM MATLACK 2 COMMENTS
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Tom Matlack has 4,074 FB friends so he must be borderline suicidal.

Should The GMP Discuss Politics?

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In response to Tom Matlack, Mark Ellis wonders whether straying into politics may hurt the Good Men Project.

Stressed-Out Men Aren’t Sexy? Thanks CNN!

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Nicole Johnson thinks CNN should focus more on news that matters and less on pointing out the obvious.

The Twitter Makes Me Feel Old

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Jamie Reidy and Joanna Schroeder are perplexed by the worldwide Twitter trends.

Zimbardo: Men Would Rather Watch Football Than F*** Jennifer Lopez

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Philip Zimbardo is worried about the future of men.

Are Men More Risky With Social Media?

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Cameron Conaway wonders why men are more willing than women to share personal information on the Internet.

Once a Babysitter, Always a Babysitter

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Full-time dad Marcus Williams senses some nonsense in the Census.

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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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Invisible Father

Robert Peake believes that for fathers and non-fathers alike, “the best in us involves us giving back in ways that are uniquely male.”

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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.

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The Importance of Masculinity in Boyhood Development

“The question is: do parents have enough trust in boy development to let them take some risks and make some mistakes?”

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.

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On Boys, Suicide, and the Lessons of Unfilled Holes

“We need to teach our boys that they can bear suffering and loss without shame … that anger is a question that deserves deeper answers than punishment or silence.”

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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