What are we going to do about all of the "non-manly" guys running around the United States? Apparently, the great assumption is that by engaging in activities ranging from military exercises to boy scouting, we could eliminate the "problem" altogether.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.22.2012
I saw a piece in the NYT about men taking jobs in traditionally female-dominated fields. It features male dental assistants, nurses (paging Gaylord Focker!) and teachers. Which is cool. Mostly.
Natasha Scripture | Posted 05.21.2012
It was my great aunt who first got this idea into my head. I was getting ready to go to graduate school when she said, "Never let a man know you're smarter than him. He won't want to marry you."
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.18.2012
I sometimes wonder if we've been so busy defending ourselves from recent assaults that we've become too distracted and too exhausted to regain our forward momentum.
Cara McDonough | Posted 05.17.2012
There's no point in denying the obvious and perhaps even sexist -- in a modern-day definition of the word -- point I'm making: I'm surprised when I see a man excelling at parenting tasks.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.16.2012
The way Joss Whedon and company present their female superheros merits acknowledgment primarily because of what they don't do. In short, they don't draw one damn bit of attention to it.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.15.2012
Would a man's choice to embrace his traditional breadwinning role with gusto be marked as an end to progress, or to opt out of parenthood as a harbinger of the downfall of society as we know it?
Posted 05.14.2012
Are men still looking for a women who is a good homemaker? Is the way to a man's heart through his stomach? Love coach Lauren Frances reveals what she...
Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 05.09.2012
While Rev. Harris describes "gender distinctions" as God-given, he betrays his own assertion by demanding that parents break their children early of any forms of gender transgression.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.07.2012
The workplace still skews a little Mad Men, where, for every Don behind the desk, there's a Betty at home to take care of business. (Betty's been replaced, but you get my point.)
Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.04.2012
The fact is that no parent -- be it mom or dad -- should/can be all things at all times to his or her child.
Marianne Mollmann | Posted 05.02.2012
Guys: If you find yourself about to snap a picture of your junk, ask yourself if that really is your best side, and if you wouldn't rather be known for who you are.
Penny Herscher | Posted 04.20.2012
You don't have to be masculine, but you do need to be understood. If you went to France to work on a team of French people, you would learn French. If you work in a world of all men, you need to learn how to talk Man.
Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 04.11.2012
The evidence of gender discrimination is rooted in history, tradition and culture. Gender inequality is a highly debilitating stigma and leads to detriments of women's psychology of their worth and dignity to themselves and to society.
Catherine Oliver | Posted 04.04.2012
Some parents have tried to raise their kids without gender stereotypes, only to get accused of being hippies at best and downright abusive at worst. Tell me what's abusive about not shoving your kid into a box that says, "This is how you're supposed to act given your genitalia."
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.23.2012
Mad Men doesn't pretend that these "career girls" are empowered: These gals are as hemmed in by the intractability of the system as they are by their rigid underwear.
Ericka Sokolower-Shain | Posted 05.22.2012
What gender-variant youth need are teachers who don't make assumptions, who ask lots of questions and then listen to the answers. Everyone is different. When a kid tells you what's important to them, that's what they want you to do.
Debra Devi | Posted 05.22.2012
Africans may have arrived here with nothing, but they enriched and vitalized American language and culture beyond measure. Africans in the Americas became masters of metaphor and euphemism.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.11.2012
In thinking about gender, I had hoped that the New York Times would deal with the recent Chris Christie attack on a law student. Christie is considered a "real man" -- a "regular guy" among his supporters, a future presidential contender.
Emma Gray | Posted 05.06.2012
You may be under the impression that the whole "women belong in the kitchen / laundry room" thing was oh-so-1950s -- left behind with June Cleaver. But according to British clothing company Madhouse -- or at least their pants labels -- domesticity is still a women-only club.
Lelia Nebeker | Posted 04.17.2012
It's clear that this cast of survivors is certainly skewed towards the lower end of the IQ range. But hey, at least Chelsea can wrangle chickens.
Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.16.2012
What, nowadays, is the meaning of the word wife? It certainly is not what it used to be -- but it hasn't yet come to mean something new, either.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 04.05.2012
There is a place for "mature content" in comics and it may even be in some of the more mainstream titles. And DC Comics certainly has the right to play around in the Watchmen universe if they so choose.
Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D. | Posted 03.26.2012
As a psychologist who spends much of my time working with children who don't fit inside neat, binary gender boxes, I applaud Showtime and the writers of House of Lies for bringing a new perspective on children's gender in a compelling and sympathetic way.
The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 01.21.2012
Artist Lilly McElroy throws herself at men. The 32-year-old Angeleno has crossed the country photographing herself doing just that, for a photo se...
Troy Roness | Posted 05.26.2012