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This article was first published on the Good Men Project. [clickToTweet tweet=”Men, how many times have you heard that you need to “get in touch with your emotions?”” quote=”Men, how many times have you heard that you need to “get in touch with your emotions?””] For decades, we were told that we need to become…
Over the years, we’ve had many men join our groups at the suggestion of their therapist. That’s right: a therapist suggested their patient check out a men’s group rather than enter therapy. That’s because more and more therapists are realizing men aren’t bad or broken. Being a man is not a pathological problem. Men don’t…
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,…
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,…
