Is Fellatio Finished?
April 9, 2012 by Michael Kimmel · 22 Comments
This just in: Blowjobs are out. That news is via Esquire, which should be an authoritative voice on the subject. In the current issue, British author Geoff Dyer reports that in an informal survey ...Read More
Sh*t Men Say To Men About Street Harassment
April 4, 2012 by Shira Tarrant · 4 Comments
For too many women—as well as LGBTQ folks and men who don’t “blend in”—crossing the street, riding a bus or running in the park involve the risk of catcalls, groping, leering or ...Read More
10,000 Men Supporting VAWA
March 20, 2012 by Ben Atherton-Zeman · 5 Comments
Every 12 seconds in the United States, a man abuses the woman he has promised to love. Every two minutes in the U.S., a man rapes a woman–usually a woman he knows. But most men don’t rape; ...Read More
Where Are Men’s Voices in the Fight for Women’s Health?
March 2, 2012 by Rob Okun · 14 Comments
Now that the public outcry has died down over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s ill-advised and short-lived decision to defund Planned Parenthood, there’s time to consider men’s ...Read More
“Neutering American Male” is Same Old, Same Old
February 14, 2012 by Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett · 7 Comments
The Neutering of the American Male, a new book by Jim Wysong, delivers a rotten Valentine to aspiring, achieving women who also take a healthy interest in having a good sex life. If men can’t ...Read More
Marketing by Masculinizing the Feminine
January 4, 2012 by Gwen Sharp · 30 Comments
Elliott J. sent in a comic by Kris Straub, who posts at chainsawsuit, making fun of the way that marketers often try to masculinize products that are associated with women, making them safe for men ...Read More
Does Feminism Need a James Bond?
December 16, 2011 by Emily Musil Church · 9 Comments
When Daniel Craig referred to his Bond character as a “sexist pig“—and then dressed in drag for public service announcement about gender inequality (below)–it was pretty big news. And ...Read More
Ah-nuld, DSK, Weiner–And Us
June 18, 2011 by Michael Kimmel · 4 Comments
The beginning of summer has been quite eventful for us guys. Like Shakespeare’s “winter of our discontent,” 2011 seems to be shaping up as the summer of our disarray. From Charlie ...Read More
On Lad Mags and Masculine Panic
June 2, 2011 by Ned Resnikoff · 3 Comments
Say this about lad mags: Their writing may be clunky and their attitude towards women troubling, but they do offer a fascinating window into a peculiar type of male anxiety. Take FHM‘s 2011 ...Read More
Male Allies, Speak Out for Women’s Rights!
May 17, 2011 by Rob Okun · 2 Comments
In the struggle to ensure safety for the women in our lives, it’s time for men who acknowledge how much we have learned—and gained—from the women’s movement to step forward and speak out. ...Read More




