Guy Talk: What’s Wrong With Men’s Bodies?
Like countless American children, I grew up hearing the nursery rhyme that claimed that little boys were made of “snips and snails and puppy-dog tails” while girls were “sugar and spice and everything...
View ArticleGuy Talk: How Men’s Rights Activists Get Feminism Wrong
When I was getting clean and sober in a Twelve Step program many years ago, there was one phrase from the literature that always resonated with me. We addicts have been, the book said, the “architects...
View ArticleGuy Talk: The Blessings Of Erectile Dysfunction
If you’ve turned on a TV since 1998, you know how obsessed we are with hard-ons. Since the little blue pill appeared more than a dozen years ago, countless imitators of varying legitimacy and...
View ArticleGuy Talk: Ladies, We’d Prefer You Didn’t Fake It
I read a blog post earlier this month that sounded a familiar refrain: Are single women too independent for their own good? Women’s magazines ask that question, men’s magazines ask that question, and...
View ArticleGuy Talk: Is It Natural For Older Guys To Lust After Young Women?
In my office, Amber is telling me a familiar story. She’s come to talk about her autobiography paper for my women’s studies class, and she reads part of her rough draft aloud. “I was 12, and this car...
View ArticleGuy Talk: The Man Repeller Isn’t About Men
I don’t know that a formal survey’s been done, but I think it’s safe to say that in the eyes of most straight men in America, turbans on a women’s head aren’t hot. Neither are ostrich-feather...
View ArticleGuy Talk: If You’re Married, Wear Your Wedding Ring
With the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton just over two weeks away, Buckingham Palace is letting out daily updates of the impending nuptials. Few bits of news have proved as...
View ArticleGuy Talk: How To Check Out Women
It’s been over 30 years, but I still remember the day Jenny Talbot caught me staring at her boobs. Jenny and I sat next to each other in a couple of classes. We weren’t exactly friends, but friendly;...
View ArticleGuy Talk: Mythbusting Bisexual Men
“You’re either gay, straight, or lying.” I first heard that oft-repeated phrase when I was an 18-year-old freshman at UC Berkeley. I was at my first meeting of the GLBA (Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual...
View ArticleGuy Talk: Can Male Masturbators Catch A Break?
Male masturbators can’t seem to catch a break. Despite the assumption that every guy has masturbated, is masturbating, or will masturbate, self-pleasure has been getting a bad rap for 3000 years. From...
View ArticleGuy Talk: Dads, Hug Your Daughters
“I was always daddy’s little girl. We did everything together. He was my hero. My father was always there with a hug for me; when I was little, he let me climb all over him like he was a jungle gym....
View ArticleGuy Talk: Lust Doesn’t Have To Ruin A Platonic Friendship
There are few more famous snippets of film dialogue than this exchange from the 1989 Blly Crystal and Meg Ryan classic, “When Harry Met Sally”: Harry: You realize of course that we could never be...
View ArticleGuy Talk: What’s The Difference Between Privacy And Secrecy?
Last week’s discussion about guys, porn, and honesty raised a number of interesting questions. How much truth do we owe our partners about what we do when they’re not around – and how much should we...
View ArticleGuy Talk: Learning To Be A Husband, Not A Son
Not so long ago, my wife and I were talking to a recently-divorced friend of ours. She’s younger than we are, in her early thirties, and as far as she’s concerned, she’s never tying the knot again. Not...
View ArticleGuy Talk: Why Does It Matter How Many Partners She’s Had?
This piece originally appeared on The Frisky and The Good Men Project in February, but is being republished on both sites as the film “What’s Your Number?” hits theaters nationwide. Judging from what I...
View ArticleGuy Talk: Why Cougars Are Better Than Silver Foxes
Hugo’s piece was originally published at the Good Men Project Magazine. Both at the Good Men Project and at my own blog, my most popular posts in terms of page-views are invariably those that focus on...
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Frisky Rant: Hugo Schwyzer’s List Of Ways Men Are “Fighting” Sexism Is Really...
Thanks, but no thanks. Yesterday, Jezebel posted an article by resident man feminist Hugo Schwyzer (who, full disclosure, contributed to The Frisky in 2010-2011 ), exalting five ways men are fighting...
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The Soapbox: On Hugo Schwyzer, Personal Essay Writing & Redemption
Last week, the controversial professor, feminist blogger and personal essayist Hugo Schwyzer announced on his blog, in an interview with NYmag.com and again in LA Weekly that he was retiring his...
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Hugo Schwyzer Has What Appears To Be Major Manic Episode On Twitter
For the last few weeks, the notoriously controversial male feminist Hugo Schwyzer has been off Twitter and Facebook, an absence that was noticed by some, at first, and then everyone who pays attention...
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The Soapbox: On #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen; Feminism Is Not Black And White
The Internet exploded in feminist calamity yesterday over the racist, sexist, patriarchal, abuse-laden behavior of Hugo Schwyzer, an allegedly a self-described* mentally ill (former) professor of...
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