Manhood

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Put Your Manhood On The Tray

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Modern Manhood, Relationships, Men, Lasculinity, Good Men Project, Tom Matlack, Anxiety, Manhood, Mammogram, Living News

My wife's annual mammogram has always been a time of great anxiety. It's my least favorite week of the year. Not because she has cancer but because she just might.

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Men: What Have We Learned So Far?

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Modernity, Relationships, America, Films, Books, Men, John Sheehy, Good Men Project, Masculinity, Femininity, Manhood, Living News

The one thing each of these men have in common is brutal honesty. You can't get very far towards your own definition of manhood when you are lying to yourself or the people you love. So dig deep.

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Men Who Are Redefining Masculinity

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Marriage, Husbands, Workers, Relationships, Sons, John Sheehy, Fatherhood, Kate Hudson, Tom Matlack, The Good Man Project, Manhood, Fathers, Living News

Just as Kate Hudson accused men of being interested only in sex and sandwiches, 500 men and women packed the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston to discuss the complexities of modern manhood.

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What does it mean to be "Good"?

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Army, Manhood, Political Philosophy, Defining Good, Philosophy, What Is Good, The Good Men Project, Media News

Our view is that defining "good" is like defining God or beauty. It is crucially important but completely unique to the man and up to them to take responsibility for.

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Obama Nobel for Being Good not Great Man

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Norway, Obama Nobel, Raising Children, Beer Summit, Fatherhood, Manhood, Politics News

Obama sets an example for the rest of us 40-something guys looking in the mirror asking ourselves those difficult questions how to move forward.

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House vs. Mad Men

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: House, Mad Men, Nice Guys, Men, Don Draper, Manhood, Gregory House, Entertainment News

At some point we have to break our emotional silence and get down to what is really going on. Don Draper has yet to do that, and it looks like he will never be able to fully. Gregory House has at least made a start.

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Two Guys Walk Into A Bar...

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Trailer, Football, Matt Weiner, Aghanistan, Manhood, Shepard Fairey, Movies, Media News

These two guys set out to write a book about what it means to be a good man -- not self-help drivel, not book about guys for women.

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Alec: I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours?

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Manhood, Alec Baldwin, Divorced-Dads, Living News

10) What advice would you give teenage boys trying to figure what it means to be a good man? "Always tell the truth about yourself."

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Take the Manhood Quiz

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Manhood, Romantic Love, Manhood Quiz, Men and Communication, Dads, Oprah, Living News

Are you a real man? Turns out that is a pretty silly question. But for too long men have been scared off having real conversations about just what kind of man they are, and hope to become.

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Why Men Don't Talk

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Manhood, Feelings, Men and Communication, Difference Between Men and Women, Men and Emotions, Self-Reflection, Living News

Men don't talk because the very vocabulary for day-to-day life has been so dominated by a female frame of reference that we've lost the ability to explain ourselves in any meaningful way.

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The Sexy Androgyny of Prince and Purple Rain

Clarence Haynes | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Prince, Brooklyn, Npr, Prospect Park, Purple Rain, Morris Day, Spin, Leather, Sex, Feminine, Masculinity, Erotic, Androgyny, Manhood, Lingerie, Minneapolis, Apollonia, New York News

My suspicion: many women are thrilled by Prince because they readily see themselves in him, and vice versa, and the mutual love is visceral and real.

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Mad Men Season 3: Inside Out

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mad Men, Matt Weiner, Manhood, Tony Soprano, Mad Men Season One, Mad Men Style, The Sopranos, Mad Men Season Two, Sexism, Mad Men Fashion, Wesleyan University, Mad Men Season Three, Poetry, Mad Men Characters, Entertainment News

The violence of Tony Soprano and swagger of Don Draper are a cover for the quiet desperation Matthew Weiner sees in all of us. They are liars who want to be what they are not.

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Why Character in Sport Matters

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Sports, Steroids, Basketball, Baseball, Manhood, Fenway Park, Bill Belichick, Vlad Shulman, Red Sox, Ray Allen, New England Patriots, Manny Ramirez, Boston Magazine, Steroids in Baseball, Boston Celtics, Celtics, Tedy Bruschi, Nba, Media News

Talk about a sports fanatic's wet dream. There I was in the Celts' locker room, free to talk to whomever I wanted.

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A Teenage Boy's View of Good Men

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.01.2009 | Living

Read More: National Football League, Manhood, Football, Jeffrey Marx, Living News

"What it comes down to is being a man for others," writes Seamus. "This means a man who is not self-centered. He puts others' needs before his and makes sure he helps everyone around him and not just himself."

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Going Gay for Humpday

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Humpday, Gay Rights, Gay, Manhood, Entertainment News

What Humpday does so well is point out, through great humor, how straight men still have so much trouble really accepting gayness.

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Finally, a Reality Show for Men

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Tom Morello, Fatherhood, Reality TV, Prison, Manhood, Two and a Half Men, Working Fathers, Life Lessons, Boston, Living News

The male stick figures presented by popular culture, often either Navy Seal macho or Two and a Half Men ignorant, confuse our boys.

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Manhood as Toad Chaser

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Fatherhood, Husband, Manhood, Good Man, Fathers, The Balanced Life, Living News

Walking down the beach with Cole to look for crabs in a tidal pool, I realize that, a decade later, I have finally re-created what in my prior life had looked so good on the outside but had no structural integrity.

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Is Mad Men a Feminist Show?

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mad Men, Feminism, Banana Republic, Manhood, Matt Weiner, Entertainment News

What makes the show tick is our sense that it's realistically portraying something important about the treatment of women at a certain point in the past while portraying something equally important about men today.

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OJ Simpson and Masculine Energy

Peter Clothier | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, OJ Simpson, Manhood, Sun Tzu, Living News

I was teaching at the University of Southern California at the time that O J Simpson was its star running back, and I remember those heroic days when ...

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A Land Where Nowhere Is Safe: A Lesbian Activist Speaks About Gender and Violence in Kyrgyzstan

Anna Kirey | Posted 11.15.2008 | Living

The government does not even recognize officially that lesbian or bisexual women and transgender people exist. There is no place for us in a conservative, patriarchal value system.

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