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How Do You Picture a Man Who Gets Catcalled?
A couple days ago, we featured some of the comments made on Katie Baker’s “Good Man’s Guide to Catcalling“; that branched off into a really engaging tangent. The original piece discussed the question...
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“A heck of a lot of attraction is predicated on social factors.”
This comment was from Jonathan G on the post Curves (or Lack of Curves) Don’t Make the Woman I like the idea of getting rid of an established norm as to physical attractiveness, but I think that notion...
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Noble Hierarch is Not a Slut
As big nerds, Charles and I like to do nerdy things. Recently, we’ve managed to infiltrate a dear college friend’s weekly Magic: The Gathering club. This is super good news! I’m the only woman, but...
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“Maybe it would be more productive to start going after societal institutions...
This is a comment by Mike L on the post “Why Men Catcall“. “There is no question that ‘cat calling’ is objectively stupid. There’s no reason for it, society would be better off if it didn’t happen, and...
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My Son Loved His First Year of Preschool. The Second? Not So Much.
Aly Windsor wonders when to be the ‘fixer’ and when to leave that to her son. __ Last weekend, I took my 4-year-old son out to dinner and a theater show for some special one-on-one time. When we...
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Net Worth and The Man Behind the Man
This man who had raised himself on the streets made my heart larger and my life richer. Editor’s Note: The author chooses to use the lowercase i as a way to practice staying humble. —- The call was...
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Gains Galore: The Benefit of Weightlifting
Embed from Getty Images Good old-fashioned weightlifting will still be trending when all the fads have come and gone. — Sure-fire, get-in-the-best-shape-of-your-life-or-your-money-back fitness methods...
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Men, Do Your Friends Come in All Shapes, Sizes and … COLORS?
Embed from Getty Images — “Let all beings be as my mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters or children and let me so care for them”. This line is from a Buddhist aspirational prayer. The commitment to...
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Clothing, Communication and (Children’s) Gender Identity
I am nine years into fathering and there is one social norm expected of me that has been more striking than any other; the clothing my children are dressed in—the colors, cuts, images, material, brand,...
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Outclassed but Still a Man
— Despite the softening of gender roles in recent decades, the primary measure of a man in Western civilization remains his social status thanks to the intersection of lingering patriarchy and...
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None of Us Will Ever KEEP Any of the Things We are so Frantically Chasing
— The status, the stuff, the likes, the validation, the sweet dolla billz are just as temporary as our short time on here on Earth. So don’t sacrifice the non-refundable NOW stressing about the things...
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Los Angeles Foreplays Itself
I do an average of 1–2 speaking engagements/book signings per month and usually receive 2–3 entreaties following each show. (Although I teach classes about human consciousness since pedagogy has...
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Money – the Presence/Lack/Pursuit of It Can Really Make Life Stressful.
— So let’s break it down and make your experience on this Earth a whole lot easier and more fulfilling. Money is a symbol of exchangeable value. Nothing more, nothing less. And value is simply...
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Just Because the World Measures Someone Else As Having a Lower Social Satatus...
— Hard to pinpoint where it all began, but somewhere in human history, people began comparing themselves to one another. To make matters worse, society assigned hierarchical values to these...
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Why the Violence Over Popeyes’ Chicken Sandwich Isn’t About Food
9.4.19: Nation – (Culture): On Monday night, a mob attempted to breach the doors of a Houston Popeyes upon learning that the restaurant’s elusive new chicken sandwich had been sold-out. The Texas...
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Choosing a Career Is Outdated
— Success, a word that carries a heavy burden in our minds but it’s also one whose definition is subjective to an individual. In the state of the information age, I challenge that our outlook on...
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Defending Masculinity
— How does masculinity defend its images in your culture? QUESTION: Currently many men experience masculinity as a fragile social status to be protected. True or False? . . What’s your answer? Scroll...
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What You Can Expect From an Authoritarian, Part 3
In the first two posts in the series called “Healing the Authoritarian Wound” I described 20 traits and behaviors of the authoritarian personality, 20 of the “terrible 30” traits and behaviors...
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Are You Wasting Your Life?
You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. That’s one of my favorite...
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Conspicuous Consumption Is Over. It’s All About Intangibles Now
By Elizabeth Currid-Halkett In 1899, the economist Thorstein Veblen observed that silver spoons and corsets were markers of elite social position. In Veblen’s now famous treatise The Theory of the...
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