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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,…
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 take a hard look at redefining what it means to be a man in today’s world? Are men falling…
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 recession is so tough because traditional male industries are leaving. He goes on to suggest that our traditional model of being a…
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 explains how The Good Men Project came into existence. The article mentions how other men’s magazines are struggling, and yet the…
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 the nurturing of the masculine – will empower both sexes. In working with myself and other men over the…
