Category Archives: Men and masculinity

Trying to Write after the Newtown Massacre

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have two pieces of writing to finish today, a chapbook manuscript that I want to submit to a contest and a blog post about Alyssa Royse’s in-so-many-ways-shameful “Nice Guys Commit Rape Too” essay on The Good Men Project that … Continue reading →

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Dad Wears a Skirt So His Son Will Feel Strong Enough To Do So As Well

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I saw this story by Piper Weiss on Yahoo and it is heartwarming and inspiring: [Nils] Pickert never minded that his son liked dressing in little girl’s clothes, but when his family moved from West Berlin to a small southern … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender and the Body, Men and masculinity | 16 Comments

Romanticizing the “Ramblin’ Man” in The “Time Traveler’s Wife”

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Last night, my wife and I finally watched The Time Traveler’s Wife. I remember that she wanted to see it when it was in the theaters, but I don’t remember why we never got around to it. It is not … Continue reading →

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Intervention

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

About a year and a half ago, as I walked home after work at about 11 PM, I passed a couple talking about thirty feet from the entrance to my building. The woman was leaning with her back against the … Continue reading →

Posted in Men and masculinity, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 11 Comments

A Response to AMM’s Comment on My Publishing a Poem at The Good Men Project (Along with the Full Text of the Poem)

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

In a comment on my post announcing the publication of “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer” at The Good Men Project (TGMP), AMM wrote: I visited the place a year or two ago and read a number of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Men and masculinity, Writing | 41 Comments

The Good Men Project Publishes “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer”

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I am really happy that The Good Men Project has chosen to publish a new of poem of mine called “For My Son, A Kind of Prayer.” Too often, I think sites like that ignore the potential for poetry to … Continue reading →

Posted in Men and masculinity, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 2 Comments

Please, Dear Venus, Show Me Now

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Jeff Fecke

I feel sorry for Men’s Rights Activists. No, really, I do. Like the people in Plato’s cave, they have a sense of the problems caused by a society that demands a harsh conformity to gender norms; they can see the … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Feminism, sexism, etc, Men and masculinity | 27 Comments

Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Notes Towards a Discussion of Male Self-Hatred

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

In his recently published book, Kayak Morning, Roger Rosenblatt writes: The literature involving fathers and daughters runs to nearly one thousand titles. I Googled. The Tempest. King Lear. Emma. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Washington Square. Daughters have a power over … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: from “Unlearning the Equation”

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Trigger warning for descriptions of sexual abuse. Some time ago, an essay I wrote called “Why I Am a Feminist Man” was published at The Scavenger. The essay was a first pass at illuminating the connection in my life between … Continue reading →

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Writing about Sex Roles: A Book by Clarisse Thorn and an Essay by Me

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Mandolin

For a couple of years now, Clarisse Thorn has been interviewing and hanging out with the community of pick-up artists, a community she finds fascinating and… well, from a feminist perspective, sort of problematic, too. There’s an unbelievably compelling thing … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Mandolin's fiction & poems, Men and masculinity, Sex, Uncategorized | 3 Comments