Thursday, January 9, 2014

Considering biological contributions to social norms

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It seems to me that some important factors, which are outgrowths of evolutionary psychology, can be seen as creating and maintaining pa...
Monday, January 6, 2014

Christian Masculinity, the WWF and Unbelonging by Ryan Thomas Neace

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This is reposted from Huffington Post. See full article HERE .  "Like most other components of the self, our masculine identities are...
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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Losing My Religion for Equality…by Jimmy Carter

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Important and powerful words from Jimmy Carter published in Women's Press ... "Women and girls have been discriminated against ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

A Challenge to Boys and Men: Will You Help Stop Rape Culture? by Patricia Leavy, PhD

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"We so often think about rape and sexual assault as "women's issues" and we focus on individual cases. But the facts are ...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

"To My Male Relatives on Facebook Who 'Like' Sexism" by Jessica Valenti

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This was written by Jessica Valenti for The Nation and is so important and appropriate for discussions around masculinity, sexism, and gend...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Suicide is a Gender Issue that Can No Longer Be Ignored (by Jane Powell)

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"Suicide rates among men have risen again. It's time to address the root causes of men's depression and inability to talk......
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Rethinking Masculinity

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   Often throughout this course, I've been thinking on ways to solve many of the problems masculinity creates.  How can we do this by al...
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Prison Industrial Complex

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  Something that comes up quite often in the news when the legislative cycle becomes active again we hear a few words: education, healthcare...

Trans* Health Care

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I got into activism around Trans* issues after two of my closest friends came out as Trans* roughly around the same time.  Normally I don...

Supreme Court to Hear DOMA/Prop 8 Case

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Just a bit of an update on that.  One of my hobbies is constitutional law, and I wanted to give a brief analysis on the upcoming case.  Basi...
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Violence Against Women Act

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The Violence Against Women Act is up for renewal in Congress.  Many conservative republicans are against the act, some claiming that it pro...

Who's to blame for violence against women?

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This is a clip from Fox News where a debate about gun control turns into a discussion about women protecting themselves from violence from...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

TEDtalk on Gender Dysphoria

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The Video Alex gives a rather informative lecture on the gender continuity that even though I didn't post during the discussion of queer...
Monday, December 3, 2012

Modern Threats to Manliness

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Even though I already made my 5 contributions, I really wanted to share yet another Cracked article I had been reading for my own le...

The War on Men

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This is an article on Fox News’ opinion page by a woman who speaks about how feminism has actually hurt heterosexual relationships. ...
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female masculinity

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Finally, I would like to share this beautiful  montage of female masculinity by Meiko Elias.   Another video discovered via research...

Masculinity in Disney

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Unsure as to why I have not been sharing my research along (lol) I thought this student project surrounding masculinity in Disney films shou...

the importance of not dismissing violence against men...

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It is easy to get caught up in the fact that heterosexual men are statistically more likely to be the perpetrators of violence domestic or s...

Why We Need to Reimagine Masculinity

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/09/20/why-we-need-to-reimagine-masculinity.html via @newsweek

Misogyny in Rap Music

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http://jmm.sagepub.com/cgi/content/long/12/1/3

On Being Inspired...

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The film "War Zone" by Maggie Hadleigh-West really inspired me to confront men on the street about how they treat women, both in r...

Boys and their Toys

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While making dinner the other night, my son was at the table playing with his latest toy obsession - Lego Ninjago.  After a quick battle, he...
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Touching and insightful Domestic Violence Presentation by Marianna Rader

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Them Gays Documentary by Theo Ferguson

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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Not Without My Daughter

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Not Without My Daughter is a 1984 film. It is based on a true story and I recommend you all to watch it. Here is the trailer for it =) ht...

Domestic Violence PSA's around the World

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Domestic Violence for both men and women are common. Here are a few links that show you how each country reacts to domestic violence. Dom...

What's Wrong with Sluts?

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I was reading an interesting article on "Slut Walks" by columnist Melanie Phillips who writes for the website dailymail.com . She ...

Would you let your kid gender-bend for a day?

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What Would You Do? is a series that acts out scenes in front of unsuspecting people to see how bystanders would react. Typically they dea...

Trophy Wife

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We all either know a trophy wife or secretly may even want to become one.  I heard about Sandy Riccardi through a friend but never actually...
Saturday, December 1, 2012

Mansome

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Hey everyone, there's a movie on Netflix instant-watch which I would completely recommend. It's called Mansome, it was made by Mor...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

Atheism, Feminism and The Bible

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 I was browsing random videos on youtube and typed in feminism and the Bible and came across this video.Dr. Ravi Zacharias is a very adamant...

Disturbing Abuse Stories

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Male Masculinity has opened my eyes to so many new ideas and topics out there in this world. For my service project I volunteered at a Women...

More Google Searches

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Today I typed the word 'sexy' into Google Images. It brought up approximately 200 images on the first page, with about 10 photos of ...

Gender Stereotypes Over History

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Today I am posting yet another Cracked.com article (I promise to post about something else next time!) This article deals with gender st...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Sexism Ads

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In doing research for topics for this blog, I entered the word 'sexism' into Google. Up came an article showing an old ad for Chase ...

misogyny & casal

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"MISOGYNY" (click link above to listen) photo: news.wisc.edu Mixed with the Beach Boy's back beat for "Good ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

When I became a Man

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A video that connected Manhood  it elaborates the Bible’s presentation of masculine v.s Gender today  describing the the interaction between...

Men Growing Up to be Boys

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 The article discuss Madison Avenue  who cultivates a Peter Pan version of masculinity  it talks about  how the era has shifted with  ...

Meat & Masculnity

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Researchers are finding a link with meat and masculinity they are finding that men who eat steak are more macho vs. men who eat veggie ...
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back off -masculinity-patrol

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Decades after women were not allowed to wear pants and play sports;  The  article discuss the dominant discourse on women and gender...

A Husband Accused: Holding His Wife Hostage

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Watch Dr. Phil as he interviews  Valerie  who is a victim of domestic violence who says that for nearly four years, her husband, Chr...

The minimalist guy

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 The article discusses going from a minimalst guy into enhancing the power  masculinity it it served as a man-box standard of the enh...

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Thinking about my own experiences with domestic violence growing up, I can’t help but remember not only witnessing my mother being brutally ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Meat-eating make Men feel Manly

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Stockbyte / Getty Images Man cutting turkey By Maggie Fox NBC News updated 11/21/2012 3:09:00 PM ET Print Font: As red-blood...

The sick results of the 'man's world' false paradigm

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This is the horror of Southern backwards thinking brought to its logical (err, illogical) conclusion. And THAT'S my problem with the Sou...

Men: Feminists or Pro-Femenists?

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Today, many male activists are considered to be either feminists or or pro-feminists. For many women however, this is disrespectful and unac...

Are Muslims allowed to beat their wives?

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Men should never hit their wives, girlfriends or partners. That is a universal rule every man should follow. A girl attacking a guy physical...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Can a gender-neutral pronoun eliminate the concept of gender?

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That's what Sweden has proposed. Sweden is the most gender-equal country in the world, according to the World Economic Fund. Boosting th...

'Manliest' Way People Hunt for Food

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I am really embarrassed to say that I had completely forgotten about this blog until today when I was double checking the syllabus for the c...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

A better way to talk about rape

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I thought this editorial was refreshing. I get so tired of America's collective past time: judging other people. http://www.huffington...

Images

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Today I went to Google Images and typed in a few different words to see what would pop up. First, I put in the word 'masculine'. I s...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

Sexism, Strength and Dominance: Masculinity in Disney Films

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http://youtube.com/8CWMCt35oFY
Friday, November 23, 2012

Chameleon

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Rudy Fransisco is a spoken word artist who covers a variety of topics. In this particular piece he touches on our societies twisted views of...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Domestic Violence- thoughts and survey

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My Service Learning project for class this semester has revolved around domestic violence. As a wrap up to my project, I created an online s...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Police Families and DV

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Police Family Violence Fact Sheet Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence,in con...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Masculinity is not just about gender, according to study

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I read an article in "The Times of India" about a study conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN). The ...

What's In A Name?

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What's in a Name and do males name make them more or less masculine for that matter? Many believe that choosing the right name ultimatel...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

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Everybody meet David: David is another friend of mine that had the "courage" to put on a dress. I know this might seem a tad red...
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Masculinity

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The following is a video I found a Youtube. I found it to be funny and somewhat offensive at the same time. The man in the video believes al...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

"It"

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This is one of my personal favorite spoken word performances. While it touches on many different issues it also easily shows how the lines b...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

"Mansome"

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I found a trailer for a documentary about male masculinity. I have not yet seen the film, but it seems to be about men and trying to look a...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

The Influence of Masculinity in the Presidential Election

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Now that the Presidential Election has ended, I am interested on hearing people's views on masculinity regarding our President Barack Ob...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

Do we still tend to engender violence and abuse?

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Bus Driver and Passenger   longer version   (click above links to view) ****BOTH ARE GRAPHIC**** A bus driver is harassed by a p...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Maryland and Maine voters say Yes to same-sex marriage

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Voters in Maine and Maryland approved a measure that will allow same-sex couples to marry and be recognized as such under state law. I think...
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Movemeber

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  I found this video interesting.  It is a video for Movember , a month where men grow mustaches to raise awareness for male cancer.  The...
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