This is a guest post form Thomas Golden. A man’s emotional pain is often invisible.  You simply can’t see it. Most people assume that since it is not easy to spot that it must not exist.  Worse yet, all too often the assumption is that there is something wrong with men since they don’t seem [...]

From reading my posts you know one of the ways I encourage men to be who they always wanted to be and get what they want is to join a men’s group. Over the years I have literally seen these groups save men’s lives, transform their relationships and give men what they need to create [...]

…older men need to provide a better model for younger men. What happened to the good old days when men ruled? When being a man was the thing? Obviously, those days are not coming back. Good thing, too. No man I know would really want to go back to the days of women feeling repressed. [...]

For those who don’t know what what South by Southwest (SXSW) is – it’s three conferences in one. A film festival, music festival and an “interactive” or high tech conference rolled into a week long event in Austin, TX in March. A couple months ago I came up with the crazy idea of inducing the [...]

As the new masculinity is evolving and being defined, we are stepping out of the old roles of what a man is. The softer and more vulnerable sides, often described as feminine qualities, are finding a new home in men. The old macho is now truly old. The sensitive, feminine qualities previously modeled by women, [...]

Macho is dead—but so is the nice guy. Our new masculinity is something between the two: a man who can be emotionally demonstrative, and still stand strong as a man. It’s a man who can cherish his woman and say no to her. It’s a man who adores his woman, and also has a life [...]

As you grow as a man, you step out of the old model of what it is to be a man, and into the new model of masculinity. It can be a hard battle – you must fight your own beliefs as well as the culture’s expectations of you. The most insidious—and certainly most entrenched—aspect [...]

In her New York Times article “The Declining Demand for Men”, Nancy Folbre says there is something that makes this recession unique for men: The Great Recession has sometimes been dubbed the Mancession because it drove unemployment among men higher than unemployment among women. Because men tend to work in more cyclical industries than women, [...]