In the Harry Potter series, it was always Hermione who mastered the spells first, and who understood how to use potions and wands and other witchy paraphernalia. And then she […]
Author: Michael Kimmel
The 18,437 Perpetrators of Steubenville
The Steubenville 2 is really the Steubenville 18,437. Until the community rallies around the victim, the shame of gang rape is on them all.
The Bible, Biology and Bigotry
In 1964, when I was 13 years old, my family’s summer vacation consisted of a drive from our home in New York to the apartment my grandparents had just bought in […]
Is Fellatio Finished?
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 […]
Ah-nuld, DSK, Weiner–And Us
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 […]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the Myth of Consent
The sexual assault charges against the now-former IMF president Dominique Strauss-Kahn–followed days later by revelations of a child fathered out of his marriage by California’s former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger–has sent […]
Do We Hail Yale, Or Are The Men There Just (Bull)Dogs?
Last fall, the nation was shocked to learn that frat guys at Yale were parading around campus chanting “No means yes! Yes means anal!” Even more shocking was an apparent […]
Men Speak Out About Sexist Coverage of Rape: A Call to Action
The following is a statement by an ad hoc coalition of men who work to prevent sexual violence. In the struggle to stop rape and all forms of men’s violence […]
The Men, And Women, Of Yale
Nearly thirty years ago, in a column in the New York Times Magazine, conservative firebrand William F. Buckley waxed nostalgic about his college days at Yale. He imagined a young […]
Gay Bashing is About Masculinity
The tragic suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi has led to a wave of national hand-wringing anguish about the daily torture and humiliations suffered by young gays and lesbians. An […]