Is supporting women’s sports one of the key’s to men’s liberation? Friend of NGM, Samantha Nzessi, explores this topic to find out.
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Hair loss is both common and distressing to many people. We’re curious, how have patriarchal gender expectations shaped our experiences of hair loss?
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For the first time in my life, I was free of the endless internal verbal abuse I would typically subject myself to. Within this newfound reprieve from decades-old self-loathing, I finally saw that there was hope for me.
I was beginning to feel what it meant to be free, and understand that this kind of freedom was attainable.
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You’ll notice that the traits associated with tallness — competence, wealth, status, leadership — are also traits we associate with masculinity. So, what is the association between patriarchal gender norms and height in our culture?
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Hip-hop in its Essence is Real.
If you’re a hip hop fan, you might know that that’s what “H.E.R.” stands for in Common’s 1994 ode to hip hop “I Used to Love Her.” It’s a classic that perfectly charts hip-hop history through a love song—but not necessarily a happy one. Let’s explore this love story, and what it can reveal about MASKulinity.
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B.O.O.K. Club’s reads since Spring of 2020
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Smith apologized to Rock saying: “I was out of line and I was wrong. My actions were not indicative of the man I want to be.”
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From Taylor Swift to the Rocky Mountains, amidst wind-whispered stories and cold-night sleeping bags, we’re shaping the lives of boys becoming men. As they’re held in meaningful relationships and supported to overcome real challenges, a generation of compassionate, resilient and courageous young men is taking shape.
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With a healthy masculinity summit in October 2012 in Washington, D.C., a key component of an ambitious two-year project to ‘spread the message of nonviolent, emotionally healthy masculinity,’ it seemed timely for Voice Male to ask several members of its national advisory board, and other colleagues and allies, to address in short essays their thoughts about the challenges inherent in trying define ‘healthy masculinity.’ What follows are the voices of those who responded just before the magazine went to press.
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Thanks to #MeToo, the heightened awareness and expressions of support for these changes increases their relevance and impact. These actions also offer men ways to respond to #MeToo and to be more respectful and nonviolent toward women. Even if there is never another #MeToo tweet, now is the time for individual men and profeminist men’s organizations to step forward and work to achieve real, lasting change.
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It comes back to parents, the primary protection for growing boys and their closest model for what it means to be authentically connected to others. It lives within schools, where boys learn the script for manhood and navigate their resistance to it. And more than anywhere else, it unfolds in the inner lives of boys: in the unseen depth of their friendships and shared secrets, in the quiet breathing as they fall asleep, in their ability to say the words that are too often left unsaid.
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Next Gen Men is always striving for balance: standing in front (advocating in all-male spaces), standing beside (showing up in solidarity), and standing behind (supporting feminist leadership).
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