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 …
It Doesn’t Pay to Be a Man
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 …
Is it Really the End of Men?
Guest post by Chris Kyle We've been keeping up with what the media has been saying lately about us men. The information and opinions being laid out boil down to this: Are men ready to …
We Are Changing
Sociology professor Michael Kimmel speaks about being a man on Dad’s Unplugged. His solution is that we need a strong dose of being an entrepreneur, his ‘self made man’. Kimmel claims our current …
What Is a Good Man?
There is a website that will tell you – www.goodmenproject.com. On June 1st a group of men and women launched this site as a ‘man’s magazine’ that “takes men seriously.” A Boston Globe article …
Space – What Men Need
I wrote a post about Sam Martin’s “Manspace” on our Men’s Work blog – A Journey of Integrity. Understanding that as men we need space and it isn’t necessarily an avoidance of the femine, but serves …