Tag: men

If masculinity really is in crisis — and that’s a big if — we should at least be able to agree that it’s not women’s responsibility to fix it.

Siri Hustvedt’s “Memories of the Future” is a fitting book for the #MeToo moment, which is as much about justice and reparations as it is about understanding the logic of memory.

This month’s books newsletter is pretty chatty for a topic that’s supposedly the pastime of introverts!

On the profound loneliness of female desire in Lisa Taddeo’s “Three Women.”

An anthropologist on a return visit to a remote village in Papua New Guinea learns that all the village’s young men are terribly wounded.

Rani Neutill recalls a literary workshop in which a white man critiqued her ability to write in “proper” English.

Patrick Burleigh carried an extremely rare genetic mutation, which brought on puberty prematurely.

As the Civil War loomed, weapons — like the recently invented bowie knife and rifles that were shipped to Kansas hidden in crates labeled as bibles — became complex political symbols.

Sohaila Abdulali wants us to pay attention to what we’ve been missing when we talk about rape, meaning everything from how we fail to address rape as a global crisis to how survivors experience PTSD at the dentist.

Some women successfully free themselves from emotional labor, but I don’t want to give up the work of caring. I just want others to care as well.

Companies have re-coded their appliances to capitalize on men’s entry into the kitchen, and they’ve taken their stereotypes with them.

It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.

Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.

“I’ve lived in Seattle for seven years, single most of them. The only thing that has changed is the increase in men I’d never want to go out on a date with.”

[Not single-page] More men are getting diagnosed with eating disorders, but are struggling to receive help: As recently as a decade ago, clinicians believed that only 5 percent of anorexics were male. Current estimates suggest it’s closer to 20 percent and rising fast: More men are getting ill, and more are being diagnosed. (One well-regarded […]