Valentine’s Day comes sugar-coated with images of flowers and chocolates, romance and love.
Okay, it’s true: I’m a sucker for romance. Falling in love is a moment of such intensity that you simultaneously feel connected with every atom on the planet and yet are oblivious of everything but one other person.
I also know [...]
Continue reading →“Mistakes were made.”
“We apologize to anyone who may have been offended.”
You’ve heard it all too often: an apology that doesn’t really, well, apologize.
When my mother taught me to apologize to my sisters for one grievous childhood thing or another, it was all very clear: an apology meant four things. You take responsibility, [...]
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 →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 →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 →What do the Pope, Republican Rick Perry, and Attila the Hun have in common? It appears they’ve all written rave reviews for my new book The Guy’s Guide to Feminism
Co-written with Michael Kimmel, it’ll be in bookstores across Canada and the US by early November.
It’s an A-Z book, at times serious but full [...]
Continue reading →The riots in London were not a political protest. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t have a meaning.
They were, of course, a miserable business. They further destroyed downtrodden communities. They traumatized children. In addition to chain stores, looters trashed small businesses sweated over by families, often immigrants.
Continue reading →1. FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
Every four years, my neighbourhood in downtown Toronto goes crazy. With people living around here from all over the world, a United Nation’s worth of flags hang from front porches and apartment balconies or flap from car windows. Streets regularly clog with honking cars of celebrating men and women or [...]
Continue reading →In countries around the world, we’re witnessing one of the greatest and swiftest changes in human history: in the course of a couple of generations we are redefining what it means to be a father. In a growing number of countries, young fathers not only expect to, but want to, play a central role in [...]
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Guys Guide to Feminism…The Talk
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