Men Need Feminism

Last year I participated in SF Women Against Rape's annual fundraising and awareness event, Walk Against Rape . It was an amazing experi...

Or: It's All About Me, Right? Sometimes, I don't do well with people who are in positions of authority. It may be the case that I h...

There is a great discussion going on over at Creek Running North on an 'Ally 101' thread started by Theriomorph around how to be a...

Over my Xmas holiday, I spent a good deal of time watching my nephew open and enjoy some presents, but even more time sitting around with fr...

I have long suffered from a tendency toward white knight syndrome , or wanting (subconsciously and consciously) to be somebody's knight ...

(Note: Title suggests that you can take the man out of academia, but it's harder to take academia out of the man.) Melissa over at Shake...

I try to do a regular Wednesday thing about "What Men Can Do" as feminist allies. This week, we'll focus on something that I t...

One of the things that has struck me as I've begun to enter middle age ( I'm thirty-seven, I'm not old! ) is that several of my ...

Months ago now, I wrote about the idea that men who identify as feminists or feminist allies have to watch out that they don't get caug...

As a person who has a BA in Philosophy and never finished his master's thesis, I still have a soft spot in my heart for professional phi...

I've (still) been (slowly) reading Susan Faludi's 1999 book, Stiffed , after having seen some interviews with her regarding her newe...

I ran across an interesting article the other day, written by Zainab Salbi, who is one of the founders of Women for Women International , an...

More good stuff from Jackson Katz's The Macho Paradox "I believe that men who are silent in the face of other men's violence--w...

Choosing Conversations Talking with people who have radically different opinions and worldviews can be difficult. It can be difficult enough...

I know I'm behind the curve on this one, but does the use of 'pimp' in popular culture bother anybody else as much as it bothers...

Toy Soldier recently left a comment on a post of mine that dealt with encouraging men to better recognize connections between violence by m...

Geo makes a great point (one among many) in his comments on my last What Men Can Do post , the one dealing with what counts as meaningful di...

By now y'all have probably heard about David Shepherd and Travis Price, the students in Cambrige, Nova Scotia, who didn't like that ...

I'm still reading Katz' The Macho Paradox , and it's still got me thinking. Early on, Katz addresses the fact that many men fee...

I've begun reading The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women, and How All Men Can Help , by Jackson Katz. I'd like to thank whomev...