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 […]
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This column is based on a simple premise: that the changes wrought by feminism over the past half-century have changed men’s lives as well as women’s. It’s about realizing that gender equality is not a zero-sum game in which men lose if women win, but a win-win.
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 […]
Lexus, Lacoste and Lacrosse: The Entitled Elite Male Athlete
There’s no shortage of explanations for the tragic death of Yeardley Love, University of Virgina lacrosse player at the hands of George Huguely, a player on the men’s lacrosse team, […]
Dispatches from Guyland: Best Places for Men
According to Men’s Health, the colleges that are best for men are those where feminism is weakest and men can therefore just relax and enjoy themselves. “Best” means fewest challenges to privilege, the most coddling by administrators and the least diverse course offerings.
This iPhone App Helps You “Man Up”
The app, which lists 24 different types of women–from athletes and married women to princesses and women’s studies majors–provides handy bon mots to enable you to seem smarter and more interesting than you really are, so as to better get over on them.
Dispatches from Guyland
I believe that feminism offers men an opportunity to live the lives we say we want to live–lives animated by greater integrity, by closer relationships with our families, our partners, our friends. Now all we have to do is something we’ve never been very good at: Ask for directions.