Friday, November 4, 2022

Toxic Masculinity: What Society Says to Men | Helly Shah

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Helly Shah’s Spoken Word poem, “What Society Says to Men” conveys a feminist outlook on the ways that men have been conditioned and wrongful...

The Wine Not the Label: How Schitt's Creek Got Bisexuality Representation Right

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"Our show, at its core, is about the transformational effects of love and acceptance and that is something we need more of now than we...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Gentle Parenting to Combat Toxic Masculinity

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  How are you combating toxic masculinity in your household?
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Healthy Masculinity: Redefining What It Means to Be Masculine

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 Healthy Masculinity: Redefining What It Means to Be Masculine  by  Taneasha White , published in PsychCentral on November 2, 2021.  "I...
Monday, August 9, 2021

Communication in Male Friendship and Its Shortcomings

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 *trigger warning for s-xual assault and r-pe. In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president. All I could think about was the grotesque audio ...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Successful Manhood

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     “What do you do?”, “What career do you have?” these questions are some of the first things asked when people are introduced to each oth...

No Homo Bro

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     “But no homo” uttered the teenage boy after expressing his gratitude towards his male friend for being there for him after he lost both...

Be a MAN

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     Have you ever heard this expression before?  Maybe you have heard it said to a friend, a son, a boyfriend...heck, maybe you have even s...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Surveilling the Male Body

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Typically when we hear the word “objectification,” we think of the objectification and sexualization of women in the media. From any major f...

The Art of NOT Being Feminine

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The masculine/feminine dichotomy is one that is so ingrained in our society it seems rare that it is ever challenged. But, the most peculiar...

Why Don't Men Cry?

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Growing up, we are taught that girls are emotional and sensitive, while boys feel no emotion and have a heart of steel. Not until growing up...
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...