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...