“’We’ve created this idea that the meaning of life should be found in work,’ says Oren Cass”
Read More“Letterman, Clooney, and Stern: profiles in changing masculinity. Kids are many things but not trivial. My grandchildren ask frankly about things grownups don’t. ‘Ba, when did you get old?’ Jack asked out of the blue one afternoon when he was nine.”
Read More“Lucy, you had no problems with nudity in art, let alone skeleton armies of the dead and—between mouthfuls of meat ripped “like wolves eating Ba!” from the bone—”
Read More“My pro-feminist statement here is not some theoretical defense of nebulous “women’s rights.” It reflects my gratitude for an altogether better (and arguably longer) life, as a father, grandfather—and childminding parent always sustained and often led by women.”
Read More“In 2019, four times the number of male police officers died by suicide than were killed in the line of duty.”
Read More“When I left the evangelical fold I changed my mind. But it took far longer to change my domineering qualities. I’m still battling them, but it has gotten better.”
Read More“It seems to me that the countries in most perpetual wars are often characterized by misogyny.”
Read More“The manosphere is actually a nightmare for men.”
Read More“When the essential male nature as nurturing protector is squandered, men lash out.”
Read More“Speaking of making life beautiful for everyone, when it comes to extending men’s life spans and increasing men’s well-being, feminism is any person’s best defender.”
Read More“As we evolved into communities that depended on each other, empathy and egalitarianism also evolved. Feminism was thus inevitable as an evolutionary step.”
Read More“I use the word gift because feminism is about accelerating human connection and cooperation and thus increasing the odds of our individual and species’ survival and happiness.”
Read More“According to “What the Pandemic Reveals About the Male Ego,” by columnist Nicholas Kristof (New York Times, June 13, death rates from the coronavirus for twenty-one countries around the world, thirteen led by men and eight by women, showed the male-led countries suffered far worse in the first wave.
Read More“It’s not just parents that are having trouble balancing careers and family; younger people have been finding it’s difficult in our work-first climate to even get relationships going.”
Read More“It seems to me that besides facing procreation, women’s ability to be happy as parents has been attacked by our capitalist system that makes sure they have no good choices unless they are rich. Fortunately, plenty of people are calling for change with women leading the charge.”
Read More“We evolved to hope for more than career success. We also evolved to strive for more than just family. One person who has been making this point (and raising her own brand of hell) is Iliza Shlesinger.”
Read More“Change can only happen when you and me stand up and demand it.”
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Read More“When our grandchildren were in school before the virus hit, I’d find myself comparing notes with a throng of parents, people half my age, while waiting around for the dismissal bell at our local public school.”
Read More“Little known and well-hidden fact, so please listen up: many evangelicals at that time were pro-choice.“
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