Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Some Thoughts on Surviving R. Kelly

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We are a product of the way we are brought up, as are our parents and the generations before them. As I am in the midst of the Netflix docu...

It's for a Friend

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I work at an adult retail store and have, especially as of late, been in some very interesting discussions with customers, specifically cis...

Be a Man, and Make Your Dad Proud

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Upon searching for images pertaining to masculinity on different search engines, I stumbled across the attached photo. At first glanc...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Who gets to decide what a man looks like?

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I decided to do a simple google search on the word ‘masculinity’ in order to see what this term represents on a worldwide scale. I stumb...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Acceptance

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What is the correct practice of teaching acceptance? I believe it starts at a young age and has to be conditioned all throughout ones childh...

Minding the Business that Pays You

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I will never understand why people just can't mind the business that pays them. Speaking from a place of experience, so many people were...

Told to Stay Quiet

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For as long as I can remember, I've always been told to hush about my feelings. Within the black community, it's very taboo to speak...

Life From Both Perspectives

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I had come across this video in a previous class. Paula Williams is a transgender woman who lived her whole life as a man knowing she wasn...

4 Year Old & Rainbow Nails

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Alicia Keys is a well known artist and a proud activist of the LGBTQ+ community. However most recently, she allowed her son to get rainbow n...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

The Easy Acceptance of Men in Women’s Spaces

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As industries like makeup artistry grow larger, it’s interesting to watch how easily men and male make up artists are welcomed and accepte...

Is Violence Embedded in Our DNA?

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  https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/human-violence-evolution/ Another great piece from Sapiens.   This article examines whether humans a...

Can Discussions About Hypermasculine Cultures Exist Without Women?

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It occurs to me that a lot of women have given their opinions and experiences with hypermasculinity, and I wonder if this sort of conver...

A Thought on The Vulnerability of Young Men

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To preface, I work in a restaurant and while they can be hit or miss with being a totally male dominated workplace, they’re still hard for...

Bisexuality Among Men

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In an episode of The Good Place , one of the more popular shows of the past few years, the main character declares, “More men should be bi. ...

An anthropological look at gym culture.

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https://www.sapiens.org/culture/women-powerlifters/ This article is from one of my favorite Anthropology newsletters, Sapiens. In this a...

Overlap: Masculinity between Queer Women and Transgender Men

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https://youtu.be/2utditm0ow8  https://youtu.be/2V09C98Xt7Q These two videos touch on masculinity outside of cisgender men. One discus...

Rapper T.I Reveals He Takes His Daughter To Doctor To Check On Her Hymen Yearly...

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On the podcast show "Ladies Like Us", rapper T.I was recently interviewed and asked if he and his 18-year-old daughter have had th...

Gendered Marketing: The Economics of Gender Roles

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https://youtu.be/3JDmb_f3E2c  I remember when I first saw this video that it opened up to me why there is so much backlash from some compa...

Social Media Outrage Over 'Always' Making Products Trans-Inclusive.

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The Shade Room: 'Always' Announces Removal Of Female Symbol To Be More Transgender Inclusive As I was scrolling through the instag...

Get Out of My Hobby

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Video games have always been a controversial subject for toxic masculinity and how it plays a role in encouraging toxic behaviors. I'm ...

Justin Baldoni's TED Talk: Why I'm done trying to be "man enough"

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https://www.ted.com/talks/justin_baldoni_why_i_m_done_trying_to_be_man_enough?language=en I highly encourage you guys to watch Jane the ...

Raising Kids in the 21st Century

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Raising Kids in the 21 st  Century Growing up it was me, my parents, and my two sisters, and I was raised that girls don’t climb t...

I’m not saying raising boys is harder than raising girls, but I am saying it burns more calories

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I found this meme to be quite right! I raised 3 boys before I had my daughter and I can say that the keep me much busier than my daught...

For the Love of Men: A New Vision into Mindful Masculinity, by Liz Plank

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I have been following Liz Plank’s personal and professional journey for some time. As an author, journalist, producer and activist she r...

Why are Men not as Empathetic as Women?

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I came across an article recently called 15 Ways to Help Kids Develop Empathy by Ana (Jovanovic) Sokolovic. Here is the link to article. h...

A Classically Gendered Moment in Time

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    My partner and I are your standard American male/female couple. We have been following the classically assigned gender roles to this po...

Steps To Be A Man

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I found this image while searching "what it means to be a man". This image was comical to me but then I was concerned because I ...

Disney: Buff or Bust

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When we watch Disney movies we see a lot of stereotypes, cliches, and gender norms. It is apparent in most Disney movies, such as Beauty...

Gender Panic: A Look at Christian Fundamentalist Views on Gender and Masculinity

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Gender Panic: A Look at Christian Fundamentalist Views on Gender and Masculinity by Nate Brennaman             While googling articles...

No Shave November..The Women's Turn

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Most people have heard of "No Shave November" which is where men don't shave their facial hair for the whole month of Novem...

Feminine One Day Masculine the Next

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I recently watched this video of a female who usually dresses more in a masculine way take on both roles and it was amazing how different...

Why are people SO resistant to the term toxic masculinity?

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  Why are people SO resistant to the term toxic masculinity? Depending on where you spend most of your time and energy, certain term...

The Dad-Bod

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The Dad-Bod A couple years back a new phenomenon was hitting the newsstands and blogs. The Dad-Bod. For those of you who haven’t had t...

The New Mick Jagger, Harry Styles and Vulnerable Masculinity

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Move over Mick Jagger, it's the era of Harry Styles. With the personal motto of, "Treat People with Kindness", Harry Styl...

Gendered from an Early Age

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The following PSA/commercial appeared in my Facebook newsfeed around Halloween. "My Hereos" PSA In this commercial, there a...

Body like a Benz

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Nowadays, women’s bodies are critiqued and compared like no other. One song called “The Body’ by Wale says “Baby, you got a body like a Ben...

No shoulders please!

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Do you remind reading the memes and articles about young girls being sent home or sent to change for their shoulders showing in middle scho...

Team Technology

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Technology plays a big part in most of our everyday lives. Whether we’re on the computer doing homework, using the phone to contact a far r...

2019: The Year of Toxic Masculinity in Film

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2019: The Year of Toxic Masculinity in Film by Nate Brennaman             In the article, “Toxic Masculinity at the Movies: This Yea...

Beauty Standards For All

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Over the past few years, there has been a rise in the creation of beauty standards for men. Looking at this change, it could be argued that...

American Horror Story: Apocalypse- Gay Men and Toxic Masculinity

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American Horror Story: Apocalypse- Gay Men and Toxic Masculinity by Nate Brennaman             American Horror Story is a very femin...

The Queer Black Nerd Experience: Navigating my Masculinity

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Growing up in the suburbs of Casselberry, Florida you soon learn you’re one thing by the time you get to middle school; you’re one of the f...