On Sunday, an Afghani man, woman, and their son, who since 2007 have been permanent residents of Canada, were convicted of murdering the family’s three daughters and the man’s first wife. The women’s “crime”: the teenaged girls had brought supposed “dishonor” to their family by the way they dressed and the boys they liked. ( Continue reading →
Reason One: Giving Up is Hard to Do
I’m a strong believer that men gain a huge amount from feminism. It’s been a theme of my writing and public speaking for thirty years (including in my new book, co-written with Michael Kimmel, The Guy’s Guide to Feminism.)
But, [...]
Continue reading →You could get into a long debate about the many adjectives we’ve used to describe manhood in order to decide which are really the greatest characteristics of masculinity.
The truth is far simpler.
To answer the question, “what is good about masculinity?”, we need to remind ourselves that:
Masculinity doesn’t exist. At least not in [...]
Continue reading →What do Marilyn Monroe, love, a male high school teacher, and, well, you, have in common?
The answer: more than you might imagine.
And although that answer will be different if you are a man or a woman, and depending on whether you’re attracted to women or men, it has had a riveting presence in [...]
Continue reading →Here’s an amazing thing about the White Ribbon Campaign: there is no membership, no structured international network, no official way to join and, in Canada where we started, there is a staff of only 5 hardworking men in donated office space. And yet, by my latest count, the campaign has spread to more than 70 [...]
Continue reading →If it were between countries, we’d call it a war. If it were a disease, we’d call it an epidemic. If it were an oil spill, we’d call it a disaster. But it is happening to women, and it’s just an everyday affair. It is violence against women. It is rape at home and on [...]
Continue reading →The Occupy movement has been an amazing success. It started a broad public discussion on social inequality. On who controls our economies and governments. On who controls our public spaces. It quickly spread around the world.
Right now, though, it risks getting trapped in its single tactic. And, ironically, it risks getting trapped in fetishizing [...]
Continue reading →You might be surprised, but I’ve been inspired by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. Surprised because, after all, his combination of right wing politics, stubborn anti-intellectualism, and an apparently superficial relationship with economic reality might lead you to think he’s not my cup of tea.
But, I’ve been inspired by his ability to reduce complex [...]
Continue reading →From time to time, I invite colleagues to write a guest blog. Jorgen Lorentzen and Oystein Holter are both prominent in Norway as profeminist men working to promote gender equality and end all forms of violence against women. All opinions are those of the authors.
In Norway, Gender Equality Does Extend to the [...]
Continue reading →The genius of the Occupy movement is the proclamation, from the outset, that it represents 99% of the population.
That stands as a far cry from the huge youth movement in the late 1960s/early 1970s. We made a fundamental mistake in those days: we were not only content but we were thrilled to be a [...]
Continue reading →The Possibility of Dreaming on a Night Without Stars

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