Tag Archives: Good Men Project
MA Reconsiders Custody Bias
I have tangled with the Men’s Rights movement before, usually in the comments section of my Good Men Project articles. The most frustrating thing about that crew, besides their vitriolic hate speech towards feminists and the occasional personal insult, is … Continue reading
In Defense of Hugo
To the average person, the recent blow-up about Hugo Schwyzer’s feminist involvement has registered on the pop culture spectrum somewhere below what I had for breakfast. But, if you run in the Facebook and Twitter circles I run in, the … Continue reading
Guest Post: Role-Reversal with a 17 Year Age Gap
A few weeks ago, I wrote a Good Men Project essay called “Could I Fall in Love with the Bus Driver?” It was about the intersection of gender and class, and how I was rethinking my own assumptions about what … Continue reading
Filed under Gender, Guest Posts
Michelle Bachmann and the Politics of “Bitch”
This week on The Good Men Project I wrote about Michelle Bachmann’s appearance on Jimmy Fallon this week. As you may be aware, the in-house band (The Roots) accompanied her march on stage with an incomprehensible version of Fishbone’s “Lyin’ … Continue reading
Sex Talk in the Modern Workplace
This week, the Good Men Project is running a series on business ethics. My contribution is a piece on sexual harassment. More specifically, I wrote about the fuzzy lines around sexual language in the modern (uber casual, rather intimate) workplace. … Continue reading
Filed under Gender, Republished!, Sex
Could I Fall for the Bus Driver?
Today for the Good Men Project, I wrote a piece with one of those nifty question-marked titles that blogs love to use. It’s called “Could I Fall in Love with the Bus Driver?” It was inspired by Kate Bolick’s Atlantic … Continue reading
Filed under Gender, Republished!
I Was a Two-Two
Did anyone else read the Baby-Sitters Club Little Sister books? Remember Karen the “Two Two”? I was a two-two too, though in this piece for the Good Men Project I refer to myself as a fifty-fifty kid. My parents made … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Gender, Republished!
How Many People Have You Slept With? Yeah… Don’t Care.
This week at the GMP, I wrote about why the previews for What’s Your Number? make me roll my eyes and sigh in exasperation. I then went on to explain why, to my mind, the number of sexual partners matters … Continue reading
Filed under Gender, Hollywood, Republished!, Sex
Padlocks and Keys as Analogies for Sex. Ick.
Super cool news to be filed under dreams-do-come-true: My GMP piece Monday, the letter to my brother about hook-up culture was reposted on Jezebel yesterday. To top it all off, it was the featured story in Jezebel’s daily email. The … Continue reading
Filed under Gender, Republished!, Sex
What If Your Partner Deployed to Afghanistan and You Couldn’t Even Say “I Love You?”
Today is the official repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. In honor of this overdue but much celebrated piece of legislation, I have a very special Good Men Project piece. Until I met John, I didn’t personally know anyone who’d … Continue reading
