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Going Through Guyhood
Meet Kevin Carty, the new editor of “Guyhood” – about the lives of young men in the world. I’m twenty years old, and I’m definitely not a boy anymore. And though I have a strong, yet admittedly...
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Loosening up on Looks and Moving Beyond Status
Do guys really choose a mate based on looks? Do females really go for high status? Kevin Carty examines how men are influenced by their peers, and how we should all loosen up a little on our dating...
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Ending Anxiety with Solid Shields and Open Vents
Making guyhood better means involving the screens and valves that relieve male anxiety.In her fantastic book, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, Susan Faludi has a section on The Citadel...
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The Lying Fiction of a War on Men
Reforming gender: We’re all in this together.—This past Monday, James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board wrote a bad column. If you’re at all like me, (and by like me, I mean...
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A Better Model of Male Sexuality in the World of Gay Pride
Gay Pride as a model of straight male sexual freedom. Due to the simple fact that our ideas of gender are so deeply tied to heterosexual sex, LGBT individuals have done a much better job of personally...
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Social Power Against Male Powerlessness
The experience of male powerlessness is very real, and social group influence is our most immediate antidote. Once you start looking for it, the experience of male powerlessness seems like it is...
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Male Passion Repressed or Uncontrollable, And Never Anything More
Male passion is maligned in two ways: through rebuke and identification as uncontrollable.—-Don’t cry, because tears are not for men. Don’t despair, because weakness and inaction are not for you. And...
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Three Experiences that Make a Modern Man
What are the types of experiences which contribute to modern masculinity?—I wanna answer the question at the top of this page because it’s what I’ve been thinking about for what seems like forever....
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Why Angry White Men is Worth Your Time
Michael Kimmel thinks that the justifiable decline of hegemonic masculinity is driving the issues and anxieties of America’s angry white men – and he might just be right.—As a society, when we talk...
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