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Do We Collectively Demonize Men and Boys?
Do negative attitudes towards men lurk in our collective unconscious? I’ve been lurking in shadows this week. As a man who takes an integral approach to understanding gender I seek to integrate mind,...
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Why Men and Boys Don’t Get What They Need
Men and boys experience inequality but don’t know how to fight it says our International Men’s Movement editor Glen Poole. It can be a difficult thing to define what the unifying purpose of an...
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What Happened When a Woman Joined a Men’s Group
Last summer, the Danish filmmaker Maja Bugge got exclusive access to an American men’s group, here she reveals what happened. As a Danish woman, I was given unique access to film an American men’s...
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Why is Samuel L Jackson Calling Men Dumb?
Is getting celebrities to tell men they’re dumb the best way to prevent male cancer? Samuel L Jackson made a trip to the UK recently to tell British men to stop being dumb. He hopes that doing this...
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Introducing Canada’s New Centre for Men and Families
The Canadian Association for Equality has launched its latest initiative for men in Toronto last month. Who are they, what is it, and why should we care? “We need a space to talk about the issues...
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Mayor of London in Malaysian Sexism Scandal
The Mayor of London stumbled into a sexism scandal last week– just what did he say and just how sexist was his remark? The British politician Boris Johnson got caught in a casual sexism scandal last...
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Schoolboys in Skirts Fight Sexism
Could teenage boys protesting in skirts create gender equality for both men and women? A group of 17 Welsh boys made headlines this week by turning up at school dressed in skirts to demand sex...
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Is Lady Di the Perfect Parenting Role Model for New Royal Dad?
The birth of a royal baby has sparked a debate about who Prince William should look to as his parenting role model—his mum or his dad? Lady Di’s son, Prince William, became a new father for the first...
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Why We Have To Talk About Male Victims of Domestic Violence
Nick Smithers works for a Scottish charity that wants male victims to be included in the public perception of domestic violence. — I recently started a new job as the National Development Officer for...
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Does the World Need a Global Men’s Movement?
An online poll has sparked a lively debate about the different factions of the global men’s movement. As the editor of the International Men’s Movement section at the Good Men Project, I was delighted...
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How Do I Protect my Son?
Australian dad-to-be and men’s counsellor, Adam Blanch, shares his fears of raising his son in a world of changing gender relations. —- Sometime in the next few weeks my beautiful new son will arrive...
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Are Men or Women Better at Teaching Boys?
Professor Miles Groth says it’s attitude, not gender, that makes for a good teacher of boys and young men. It is well known that boys all over the developed world are underperforming girls at every...
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Men, We Have a Problem With Online Abuse
Shouldn’t we be pleased that men who abuse women online are being held to account? Twitter’s UK boss, Tony Wang, made a public apology to women who had received rape threats and death threats on the...
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Four Ways Great Dads Are Discriminated Against and What We Can Do About It
Could equal rights for fathers be the key to helping more mums and dads to have it all? I was looking at a school book from the 1950s recently and discovered that in post-war Britain all dads used...
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International Men’s Movement Gathers in Australia
Some of the world’s leading thinkers on men’s issues are heading to Australia this week for what is probably the world’s biggest conference on men’s issues. Our International Men’s Movement editor,...
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I Used to Think it was a Man’s World and Then I Became a Dad
UK Daddy Blogger John Adams says he’s celebrating International Men’s Day this year, something he wouldn’t have dreamed of doing before he experienced fatherhood. —– International Men’s Day is upon us...
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Five Reasons Men Love to Leave Christmas Shopping Until the Last Minute
All over the world men are proving their is truth in the rumour that we shop late for Christmas. So why is that? — I’m not a fan of gender stereotypes but there does seem to be some universal truth...
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Why Do Men Still Love the Film The Great Escape?
To mark the 70th anniversary of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III, Glen Poole examines the enduring masculine appeal of the Great Escape — It’s the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape this week,...
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The Way Passers by Respond to a Woman Attacking a Man in the Street Will Take...
– A new video showing our different responses to violence against men and violence against women is taking the internet by storm. ◊♦◊ What would you do if you saw a man attacking a woman in the...
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Are Hollywood’s Alpha Males Teaching Us the Wrong Lessons About Masculinity?
Imagine if movie heroes could be vulnerable and emotional. —– There’s a fascinating feature in this month’s UK edition of Esquire magazine that bemoans the “paucity of real heroes and real men in...
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