The Men’s Movement… or whatever you want to call it is slowly growing. It’s growing organically as men find new ways to help each other. A few days ago one of my partners Ken Solin sent me the URL of a site in Australia. Men Group focuses on supporting men in starting their own men’s [...]
When was the last time you told a male friend, “I love you“? When was the last time you held a man who was crying? When was the last time you just sat there and listened to a man, without giving advice? If you are like most men, it has been a while since you [...]
“Women dwell on their disappointments. …Whereas men dwell on their failures.” From Leigh Pretnar Cousins, MS in the PsychCentral post Ms. Cousins’ contention is that women don’t get the fact that, “Men are constantly in competition with each other, embroiled in a life-long contest that no man can ever ‘win’ in any permanent way.” I [...]
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 [...]
Men don’t listen. It’s a horrible stereotype—but as far as most women are concerned, it’s an irrefutable fact. Why don’t we just listen? Why do we always try to fix everything? Because, as men, we are instinctually wired and acculturated to provide for and protect our partners through helping, fixing and directing. When a man’s [...]
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, [...]
Frederick Marx, the man who brought us the film Hoop Dreams, is finishing up two films that pertain to men’s emotional health. Veteran’s Journey Home is about our vets returning home from the Middle East. In the next few years 1.7 million vets will return home from the Middle East. Whether official PTSD victims or [...]
