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 [...]
Your conscious and unconscious minds may act like adversaries, attempting to pull you in two directions. They are meant to work together to enrich your life. Proving that you are more than your thoughts David Brooks, past senior editor at The Weekly Standard, contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, now New York Times [...]
As men we like to push it – sometimes too far. A new study printed in the New York Times reports on research published in The Journal of Applied Physiology. The gist of the study was: long term hard endurance exercise can damage your heart. Are you exhausted? As men we often think if some [...]
If you make over $150,000 you can watch Discovery Communication’s new channel, Velocity. The New York Times wrote an article on how Discover is creating an “upscale men’s lifestyle network” with high end advertisers. Of the 118 million men ages 15 and older in the United States, about four million are identified by the government [...]
Are you hyper? I was. As boys, we have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) three times more often than girls. Also as boys we are more likely to develop oppositional behavior and delinquency. I can attest to this. With Asperger’s Syndrome and dyslexia, I was tense with pent up energy that had to go somewhere. [...]
Does being happy piss you off? It can for me. I often feel all the talk about needing to be happy is BS. And those smiley faces…don’t get me started. Now I know I’m not the only one feeling this way, Anahad O’Connor from The New York Times published an article about how faking it [...]
In this age of enlightenment we like to think appearance is less important than it used to be. Unfortunately, that’s just wishful thinking. A New York Times article quotes Michael Kimmel, a sociology professor at the State University of New York, as saying “women are able to provide for a family, so they are more [...]
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, [...]
